Timeline for Examples of interesting false proofs
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| Apr 25, 2012 at 11:11 | comment | added | Ketil Tveiten | Essentially the same proof is shown here: youtube.com/watch?v=Lo4NCXOX0p8 (an old Abbot & Costello sketch). | |
| Apr 22, 2012 at 22:59 | comment | added | Michael Renardy | I could not figure out how to properly line up columns. I know how to do it in TeX, just not in "Math Overflow TeX." I hope the verbal description I substituted is clearer. | |
| Apr 22, 2012 at 22:57 | history | edited | Michael Renardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2012 at 16:51 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | This is incomprehensible as posted but begins to make sense after you've followed the link in Gerald Edgar's answer. | |
| Apr 22, 2012 at 13:52 | history | edited | Michael Renardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2012 at 11:29 | comment | added | Dylan Thurston | I think something must have gotten lost in the typography--this doesn't make a lot of sense as it appears on my screen. | |
| Apr 22, 2012 at 10:45 | history | answered | Michael Renardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |