Month: August 2007

The Lucia de Berk case, part 2

Making errors is so common in mathematics that there is not too much embarrassment about it. For example, both Cauchy (1789-1857) and Kummer (1810-1893) made a very serious error in attempting to prove the Fermat conjecture, which was finally proved by Andrew Wiles at the end of the previous century, … Continue Reading The Lucia de Berk case, part 2