Timeline for Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
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| Feb 8, 2021 at 22:43 | comment | added | user20948 | You don't need that fancy Peano curve. Every closed set in a metric space is the zero set of a real valued function. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 23:59 | comment | added | Alessandro Della Corte | Any component of a Peano curve does the job. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 23:21 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | Hmm, with the clarification added, really not obvious. What is an example of a counterexample? | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 21:04 | comment | added | Alessandro Della Corte | Well, thanks, clarified what was left as obvious. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 21:03 | history | edited | Alessandro Della Corte | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2020 at 21:00 | comment | added | Mark Schultz-Wu | How would you stumble upon this belief? The most basic example of continuous functions (constant ones) fail it, so it seems like an easy belief to correct. | |
| S Nov 14, 2020 at 20:40 | history | answered | Alessandro Della Corte | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Nov 14, 2020 at 20:40 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Alessandro Della Corte |