From: David Hart <dhart@indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Re: Fallacies of Mathematics
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:10:41 -0500

Kenneth Chiu wrote:
> 
> Can anyone recommend some good books on the Fallacies of Mathematics.
> i.e. books which give me the (incorrect) proofs of:
>      1.  All triangles are isosceles.
>      2.  0 = 1.
>      3.  -1 > 1.
>      4.  ... any other mathematical absurdity.

How about a web site:  

Classic Fallacies, at 
http://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/falseProofs/index.html 

Also relevant:

Marilyn is Wrong, at http://www.wiskit.com/marilyn.html


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David Hart        <http://php.indiana.edu/~dhart>
Center for Statistical and Mathematical Computing
Indiana University          Bloomington, IN 47405


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A geometric proof that  99=100:
	http://www.cut-the-knot.com/pythagoras/tricky.html