Monday 30 April 2012

Mathematical Fallacy

                     To all our knowledge Mathematics always has a major role in all kinds of fields in this world and it is the reason for its fame . But off to our knowledge many mathematical suggestions made by many Mathematicians lead to the formation of mistaken proofs . All these false proofs are placed under a separate mathematical field called MATHEMATICAL FALLACY . Few of these False proofs have been corrected ; some are replaced ; some are banned .
                     In mathematics, certain kinds of mistaken proof are often exhibited, and sometimes collected, as illustrations of a concept of mathematical fallacy. There is a distinction between a simple mistake and a mathematical fallacy in a proof: a mistake in a proof leads to an invalid proof just in the same way, but in the best-known examples of mathematical fallacies, there is some concealment in the presentation of the proof. For example the reason validity fails may be a division by zero that is hidden by algebraic notation. There is a striking quality of the mathematical fallacy: as typically presented, it leads not only to an absurd result, but does so in a crafty or clever way. Therefore these fallacies, for pedagogic reasons, usually take the form of spurious proofs of obvious contradictions. Although the proofs are flawed, the errors, usually by design, are comparatively subtle, or designed to show that certain steps are conditional, and should not be applied in the cases that are the exceptions to the rules.

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