Timeline for Examples of interesting false proofs
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| Apr 23, 2012 at 14:32 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | This doesn't look like a false proof. Rather, it's a proof that looks absurd at first glance but that can be made rigorous if you set up the right theoretical framework. Sort of like certain kinds of manipulations with divergent series, or arguments using infinitesimals, or the Dirac delta function. | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 12:02 | history | edited | Yannic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2012 at 23:39 | history | answered | Yannic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |