Timeline for Examples of interesting false proofs
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:27 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 10, 2019 at 9:38 | history | edited | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added name of linked paper, to protect against link rot
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| Jan 10, 2019 at 8:42 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | Every this question bubbles back up to the front page again, this answer is the one that stops me in my tracks for 5 minutes trying to find the error. | |
| Jan 10, 2019 at 6:19 | history | edited | Steven Landsburg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 42 characters in body
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| Apr 30, 2012 at 19:55 | comment | added | Johannes Ebert | I like this. It shows how easy it is to fool yourself and others by drawing a diagram and saying ''the natural map'' and ''canonically isomorphic'' a few times! Apparently, the paper was peer-reviewed, but it states clearly that the purpose was to discuss a fallacious proof. | |
| Apr 22, 2012 at 14:49 | comment | added | joro | Was the paper peer reviewed? | |
| Apr 21, 2012 at 15:18 | history | answered | Steven Landsburg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |