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Widely accepted mathematical results that were later shown to be wrong?

Fundamental Examples

Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples? [closed]

Sum of 'the first k' binomial coefficients for fixed $N$

Google question: In a country in which people only want boys [closed]

Is there a natural random process that is rigorously known to produce Zipf's law?

Why is the Gaussian so pervasive in mathematics?

Spectral graph theory: Interpretability of eigenvalues and -vectors

Generalizations of the Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem

Difference between a 'calculus' and an 'algebra'

Covering a random graph with spanning trees.

How to characterize a Self-avoiding path.

Potts model simulation

How unhelpful is graph minors theorem?

Is there any efficient solution of the matrix equation AXB + (AXB)' + cX = D

Question regarding divergence

Independence of P = NP?

When does an infinite product of random matrices have finite expected norm?