Timeline for Examples of conjectures that were widely believed to be true but later proved false
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| Jun 29, 2012 at 18:11 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | A very nice article on this, by Errol Morris. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/… | |
| May 4, 2012 at 5:56 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| May 3, 2012 at 19:31 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | My recollection from history of maths lectures is that the Greeks were well aware there were quantities/ magnitudes that could not be constructed as ratios of whole quantities/magnitudes. The issue is what they would have regarded as "number" | |
| May 3, 2012 at 15:37 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | Was this a conjecture or a philosophical position? | |
| May 3, 2012 at 15:20 | history | answered | Barry Cipra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |