Timeline for Examples of interesting false proofs
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| Apr 23, 2012 at 12:51 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Sure, but if you make it too easy you make it too obvious. Better to obscure the fallacy in lots of irrelevant verbiage. | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 6:16 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | Wouldn't it be easier (and pretty much equivalent) to prove that Zorn's Lemma is false by noting that it implies the existence of a largest natural number? | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 1:35 | history | answered | Gerry Myerson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |