Timeline for Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
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| Feb 7, 2021 at 4:17 | comment | added | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | Similar to 1: a subset of a group that is closed under multiplication and inversion is a subgroup. | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 22:46 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | Isn't the more right statement that a transitive and irreflexive relation is assymetric? | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 15:21 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | +1 for #2. Baby Rudin is another offender. And many authors use so-called "diagonalization tricks" for proving compactness theorems like Arzela-Ascoli and Prohorov, which typically reduce to the compactness of $[0,1]^\mathbb{N}$. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 15:13 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | For big-list questions, it's usually best to post independent answers as separate answers. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 9:18 | history | answered | safak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |