Timeline for Most interesting mathematics mistake?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Apr 5, 2010 at 6:14 | comment | added | Kevin H. Lin | I don't know whether it is appropriate to say "discovery" of ideals. Maybe "recognition of the importance/relevance of ideals"? | |
| Jan 6, 2010 at 2:19 | comment | added | user1073 | Harold Edwards wrote a wonderful account of this history in his paper "The background of Kummer's proof of Fermat's last theorem for regular primes". It doesn't seem to be available online, but the mathsci net review is: ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=57:12066a | |
| Oct 18, 2009 at 14:27 | comment | added | GMRA | Oh, ok my mistake. | |
| Oct 18, 2009 at 1:13 | comment | added | Ben Webster♦ | It was actually Lame who came up with that bad proof. | |
| Oct 17, 2009 at 20:54 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I'm told that Kummer actually didn't care about Fermat's last theorem; it just happened that the techniques he developed were applicable. | |
| Oct 17, 2009 at 18:45 | history | answered | GMRA | CC BY-SA 2.5 |