Timeline for When have we lost a body of mathematics because errors were found?
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| Feb 28, 2017 at 22:36 | comment | added | Rex Butler | That's not a loss, at least not a complete loss... it's a classification theorem. | |
| May 13, 2012 at 8:47 | comment | added | JeffE | I heard the same story about a PhD thesis, where someone in the audience announced during the defense that the class of objects having the amazing properties described by the student was actually empty. I assume all such stories are apocryphal. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 16:14 | comment | added | roy smith | Edmund, this may be related to your question. mathoverflow.net/questions/93716/… | |
| May 10, 2012 at 16:04 | comment | added | roy smith | This reminds me of a colloquium talk I heard at Harvard some 40 years ago, in which a famous speaker generalized some results of Bott to an abstract setting. At the end, Bott, who was sitting in front, asked the speaker if he knew any examples of his theoretical objects other than, as I recall, sections of vector bundles over (possibly compact?) manifolds. The answer was "No, I don't." | |
| May 10, 2012 at 9:44 | comment | added | Edmund Harriss | This is interesting, anyone have more details? | |
| May 10, 2012 at 8:41 | history | answered | Per Manne | CC BY-SA 3.0 |