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Questions that are about research in mathematics, or about the job of a research mathematician, without being mathematical problems or statements in the strictest sense. Do not use this tag for easy or supposedly easy mathematical questions.
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famous papers/results by non professional mathematicians
Kurt Heegner is a nice example. Sadly he died before the mathematical community realized that
his proof of the class number 1 problem was essentially correct.
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Failures that lead eventually to new mathematics
Lebesgue claimed that the projection of a Borel subset of the plane is a Borel set itself, an erroneous assertion that led the then 23 year old Mikhail Souslin to the definition of an analytic set (i. …