Timeline for Most interesting mathematics mistake?
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| Jan 26, 2022 at 10:06 | comment | added | Roland Bacher | An understandable mistake: At that time there were no Chinese restaurants in Cambridge, I guess! | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 20:55 | history | edited | Ira Gessel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
corrected spelling of "desiderata"
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| Dec 6, 2016 at 15:56 | history | edited | Danu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited in relevant information from a comment
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| Mar 2, 2010 at 17:19 | history | edited | Richard Stanley | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Sentence added at end.
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| Mar 1, 2010 at 15:51 | comment | added | Richard Stanley | It took me a while to track down the correct reference. It is page 51 of A. Cayley, Desiderta and suggestions: No. 1. The theory of groups, American J. Math. 1 (1878), 50-52. An interesting related paper is G. A. Miller, Contradictions in the literature of group theory, American Math. Monthly 29 (1922), 319-328. | |
| Feb 3, 2010 at 1:05 | comment | added | aorq | Can you provide a reference? I just checked his paper "On the theory of groups, as depending on the symbolic equation θ^n = 1" (1854) which Wikipedia gives as the first definition of an abstract group. He says, "And we have thus two, and only two, essentially distinct forms of a group of six", and then gives their Cayley tables. The paper I was reading is pdfserve.informaworld.com/26005_751318052_910849049.pdf linked from informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a910849049&db=all | |
| Dec 25, 2009 at 23:09 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | Iǘe had a couple of students who are now going to be proud! :P | |
| Dec 24, 2009 at 18:51 | comment | added | Ilya Nikokoshev | Very nice one and very much in spirit of computer bugs! | |
| Dec 24, 2009 at 18:00 | history | answered | Richard Stanley | CC BY-SA 2.5 |