Re: [HM] Mistakes in mathematics


Subject: Re: [HM] Mistakes in mathematics
From: Raymond Ayoub (rga1@email.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 17:39:40 EST


I wrote an article giving three examples of noted mathematicians erring in
proofs of noted results. It appeared in Math. Intelligencer. It is also the
case that Abel has an error in his proof on the quintic. It can however be
readily remedied. Raymond Ayoub



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