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Todd Trimble
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Perhaps the canonical example is when Suslin, as a student of Lusin, was asked to read a paper of Lebesgue where the latter asserted that the image of a Borel set under a continuous mapping is again Borel. This marked the beginning of analytic sets (and eventually the projective hierarchy).

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