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Is there, somewhere, a list of theorems that were considered proved and true for a while, but after attempts at formalization the proof was invalidated and the theorem is now unknown or disproved?




There was a question [1] on mathoverflow about this with a couple of interesting answers and comments.

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/291158/proofs-shown-to-be...





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