Timeline for What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs?
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| Aug 8, 2020 at 16:48 | comment | added | MathCrawler | @PaulMonsky Such poor people are easier rememebered by appropriate mnemonic tricks as Milnor's famous limerick The perfidious lemma of Dehn Was every topologist’s bane ‘Til Christos D. Pap- akyriakop- oulos proved it without any strain. | |
| Apr 1, 2020 at 16:45 | comment | added | Daniel Asimov | Just to be obsessive about names: It's "Eratosthenes". | |
| May 8, 2019 at 5:01 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | @Fan: Plenty of others, too: Eratothenes, he of the prime number sieve, pentasyllabic; Ladyzhenskaya; Vijayaraghavan; Minakshisundaram. | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 5:31 | comment | added | Fan Zheng | @paulMonsky Countexample: Kowalevskaya, in terms of both string length and, as you might concede, syllable count. | |
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| Jun 22, 2010 at 22:30 | comment | added | paul Monsky | That's right, and I should have mentioned him. People with names longer than Nakayama's probably have a hard time getting things named after them. | |
| Jun 22, 2010 at 14:26 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | The proof was found by C. Papakyriakopoulos, right? It seems only fair to mention his name! | |
| Jun 11, 2010 at 7:50 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | I suggest renaming it "Dehn's lemon". | |
| Jun 11, 2010 at 3:27 | history | answered | paul Monsky | CC BY-SA 2.5 |