Timeline for Examples of interesting false proofs
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| May 1, 2012 at 15:23 | comment | added | joro | OK, I didn't know this. | |
| May 1, 2012 at 11:05 | comment | added | Marc Palm | See e.g. this answer of S.Carnahan: mathoverflow.net/questions/49811/measure-of-adeles-minus-ideles | |
| May 1, 2012 at 10:12 | comment | added | Marc Palm | However, I do not think that the wrong proof is to far away from what you call false proof. In the end, the nitpick was an issue of well-definedness of a function, which was nonzero on a measure zero set. This is pretty close to "dividing by zero" for my taste. | |
| May 1, 2012 at 5:53 | comment | added | joro | Interesting. But wrong proof is different from false proof IMHO. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 18:04 | history | answered | Marc Palm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |