Timeline for Most interesting mathematics mistake?
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| Oct 21, 2021 at 4:23 | comment | added | KConrad | I see that error in my copy, where I had just crossed out one of the 2’s in 22 to make it 2. I would not be surprised if such typos were never corrected in any later printing. | |
| Oct 20, 2021 at 21:43 | comment | added | Richard Stanley | @KConrad: I checked that the error is on page 422 (English edition). Perhaps there is a later printing without this error; otherwise I was mistaken about it being later corrected. | |
| Oct 16, 2021 at 2:28 | comment | added | KConrad | Do you mean an early Russian edition? I believe the book in English only ever had one edition. Back in the 1990s I sent the translator Newcomb Greenleaf an errata list for the English version of the book and he thanked me but said he did not expect Academic Press would ever come out with a second edition. A genuinely bad typographical error in the English translation of that book was mentioned by me an in answer to the MO question mathoverflow.net/questions/25263/…. | |
| S Oct 16, 2021 at 0:28 | history | answered | Richard Stanley | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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