From wikipediaWikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_convergencehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_convergence), about uniform convergence:
"Augustin Louis Cauchy in 1821 published a faulty proof of the false statement that the pointwise limit of a sequence of continuous functions is always continuous. Joseph Fourier and Niels Henrik Abel found counter examples in the context of Fourier series. Dirichlet then analyzed Cauchy's proof and found the mistake: the notion of pointwise convergence had to be replaced by uniform convergence."