Re: Factoring paper is wrong

From: Douglas A. Gwyn (DAGwyn_at_null.net)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:27:50 -0400

MorituriMax wrote:
> If he were really honest he would have had several people proof read his paper
> before he posted it.

That's more a matter of maturity and wisdom than honesty.

Even acknowledged top-flight mathematicians have been
known to make errors. Peer review is an attempt to
catch ones that can readily be spotted by colleagues
(among other functions), and it seems to work fairly
well for that, but it doesn't catch them all. The most
famous example is probably Kempe's proof of the four-
color theorem.

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