Timeline for When have we lost a body of mathematics because errors were found?
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| May 11, 2016 at 19:41 | comment | added | Kristal Cantwell | In section 3 of the notes I published it is noted that there are problems with the results on stiffness namely mainly many of the results are wrong due to problems with foundations such as bad definitions. In applied mathematics with some work being done by people who are not mathematicians there are probably going to be problems with the foundations that become apparent with inspection. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 17:58 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Kristal, I have read the original question and it had the meaning specified here. All I did was to expand the title. The revision history mathoverflow.net/posts/96510/revisions shows that at the time when you wrote your answer, the question sought examples where maths was "lost" through the discovery of errors. The link in the question makes this very clear, I think | |
| May 11, 2016 at 16:28 | comment | added | Kristal Cantwell | It addresses the original question not the one that is now there after today's revision. I think the original question asked about lost mathematics. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 19:39 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | This does not seem to address the question being asked: the OP apparently wanted examples of mathematics that had to be discarded because of errors | |
| Dec 16, 2012 at 16:16 | history | edited | Rodrigo A. Pérez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 14, 2012 at 7:19 | comment | added | Daniel McLaury | Given that the title translates roughly as "Remembering Lost Topology," I'd assume so. | |
| May 13, 2012 at 7:29 | comment | added | hopflink | @anonymous: why do you mention that book? Is it about lost math? | |
| May 10, 2012 at 6:27 | comment | added | anonymous | Not to forget the book "A la recherche de la topologie perdue" edited by Guillot and Marin. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 4:19 | history | answered | Kristal Cantwell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |