Timeline for Are there examples of conjectures supported by heuristic arguments that have been finally disproved?
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| Aug 18, 2018 at 17:27 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | @Wolfgang I don't believe Joel can un-CW, ever since the move to join the SE network. But the current approach on the MO mod team is to treat questions that call for examples quantifying over all fields of mathematics as "big-list" and to make them CW. This is consistent with what we've been doing for years anyway (as you seem to know). | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 10:23 | answer | added | Alex Gavrilov | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 23:53 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 22 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 12:50 | answer | added | dionyziz | timeline score: 31 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 12:01 | answer | added | Mark S | timeline score: 24 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:51 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
added the (conjectures) tag - to me this tag seems suitable for this question; if I'm mistaken feel free to revert my edit
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 9:36 | comment | added | Wolfgang | @JoelDavidHamkins I guess that is just the MO policy/tradition for "big-list" questions. Now of course you, more than anybody else here, may feel free to use your privilege of "un-CW-ing" what some other mod made CW. But anyway, supposedly not many people will post an answer only because of getting some virtual reward for that. Sure I agree that such a reward is always nice for one's ego, but there are rewards which are far more precious in life. :) :) | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 1:26 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @MarkS : Why not post Maier's theorem as an answer? | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 22:33 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | Why is this question community wiki? My opinion is that MO has an interest in rewarding those with the knowledge to answer sophisticated questions like this. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 22:12 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 34 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 22:01 | comment | added | j.c. | See also mathoverflow.net/questions/30149 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 21:17 | comment | added | Wolfgang | @MarkS yes that fits it. In this case the conjecture would have been the negation of Maier's theorem. I just meant to reword the title somewhat in the box to avoid a dumb repetition... | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 20:57 | answer | added | Robert Israel | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 18:59 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | One might argue for Smale's discovery of sphere eversion, though I wouldn't personally make this argument, and only mention it here because it seems at least tangentially relevant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_eversion | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 18:58 | comment | added | Mark S | The question in your title seems subtly different than the question in the box. Is Maier's theorem an example of what you are looking for? Cramér's heuristic breaks down here. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 18:44 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disproved_mathematical_ideas | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 17:05 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Aug 16, 2018 at 16:53 | history | asked | Wolfgang | CC BY-SA 4.0 |