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Hilbert's fourteenth problem (828 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1954). Then in 1959 Masayoshi Nagata found a counterexample to Hilbert's conjecture. The counterexample of Nagata is a suitably constructed ring of invariants
Approximation property (1,003 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the first counterexample in a 1973 article. However, much work in this area was done by Grothendieck (1955). Later many other counterexamples were found
Wang Xianghao (258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
appeared. He said he had a counterexample to a lemma which had been used in the proof. An hour or two later, he produced a counterexample to the theorem itself
Tait's conjecture (654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tutte (1946), who constructed a counterexample with 25 faces, 69 edges and 46 vertices. Several smaller counterexamples, with 21 faces, 57 edges and 38
Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture (473 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
conjecture, or $50 for a counterexample; it is one of many conjectures of Erdős. If the conjecture is false, a counterexample would take the form of a
Relatively compact subspace (325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
non-compact homogeneous spaces (specifically spaces of lattices). As a counterexample take any finite neighbourhood of the particular point of an infinite
Stacking (chemistry) (1,042 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In chemistry, stacking refers to superposition of molecules or atomic sheets owing to attractive interactions between these molecules or sheets. Metal
Ganea conjecture (533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Norio Iwase gave a counterexample to the general case in 1998. In a follow-up paper from 2002, Iwase gave an even stronger counterexample, with X a closed
Hirsch conjecture (1,370 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
43-dimensional polytope of 86 facets with a diameter of more than 43. The counterexample has no direct consequences for the analysis of the simplex method, as
Tanaka equation (364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
unique, i.e. any other weak solution must have the same law. Another counterexample of this type is Tsirelson's stochastic differential equation. Øksendal
Morera's theorem (1,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of a holomorphic function along a closed curve is zero. The standard counterexample is the function f(z) = 1/z, which is holomorphic on C − {0}. On any
Shm-reduplication (999 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shm-reduplication is a form of reduplication originating in Yiddish in which the original word or its first syllable (the base) is repeated with the copy
Fubini's theorem (8,089 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In mathematical analysis, Fubini's theorem characterizes the conditions under which it is possible to compute a double integral by using an iterated integral
Heparinoid (887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
these proteins in a similar way, acquiring GAG side chains in vivo. One counterexample is the protein chymase, which directly binds to heparin. Dermatan sulfate
Hironaka's example (1,238 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
scheme if every orbit is contained in an affine open subscheme; the counterexample above shows that this technical condition cannot be dropped. For quasi-projective
Hermitian adjoint (3,270 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In mathematics, specifically in operator theory, each linear operator A {\displaystyle A} on an inner product space defines a Hermitian adjoint (or adjoint)
Lucas paradox (1,043 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In economics, the Lucas paradox or the Lucas puzzle is the observation that capital does not flow from developed countries to developing countries despite
Egorov's theorem (2,618 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(A)<\infty } is necessary. To see this, it is simple to construct a counterexample when μ is the Lebesgue measure: consider the sequence of real-valued
Lagrange's theorem (group theory) (2,250 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In the mathematical field of group theory, Lagrange's theorem states that if H is a subgroup of any finite group G, then | H | {\displaystyle |H|} is a
Naimark's problem (243 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
generators that serves as a counterexample to Naimark's problem. More precisely, they showed that the existence of a counterexample generated by ℵ 1 {\displaystyle
Misner space (776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
spacetime. It contains a non-curvature singularity and is an important counterexample to various hypotheses in general relativity. Michio Kaku develops the
Whitehead conjecture (217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a group G so that either G is a counterexample to the Eilenberg–Ganea conjecture, or there must be a counterexample to the Whitehead conjecture; in other
Perko pair (350 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
subsequently found its way into Rolfsen's table. The Perko pair gives a counterexample to a "theorem" claimed by Little in 1900 that the writhe of a reduced
Structural induction (1,750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
existence of the minimal counterexample implies an even smaller counterexample, we have a contradiction (since the minimal counterexample isn't minimal) and
Thompson groups (1,364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Thompson in some unpublished handwritten notes in 1965 as a possible counterexample to the von Neumann conjecture. Of the three, F is the most widely studied
Open mapping theorem (functional analysis) (4,087 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
if either space is assumed to be only a normed vector space; see § Counterexample. The proof is based on the following lemmas, which are also somewhat
Vaught conjecture (1,039 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
2007) has announced a counterexample to the Vaught conjecture and the topological Vaught conjecture. As of 2021, the counterexample has not been verified
Tutte graph (697 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Published by Tutte in 1946, it is the first counterexample constructed for this conjecture. Other counterexamples were found later, in many cases based on
Eilenberg–Ganea conjecture (200 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a group G so that either G is a counterexample to the Eilenberg–Ganea conjecture, or there must be a counterexample to the Whitehead conjecture; in other
Hilbert's third problem (1,479 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Dehn, who proved that the answer in general is "no" by producing a counterexample. The answer for the analogous question about polygons in 2 dimensions
Snake lemma (1,592 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The snake lemma is a tool used in mathematics, particularly homological algebra, to construct long exact sequences. The snake lemma is valid in every abelian
Chromatic fourth (492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that the boundaries should always be the tonic and dominant notes. One counterexample comes from the Minuet of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet in
Source-specific multicast (431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Source-specific multicast (SSM) is a method of delivering multicast packets in which the only packets that are delivered to a receiver are those originating
Computer Aided Verification (396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
originally published in CAV are techniques in model checking, such as Counterexample-Guided Abstraction Refinement and partial order reduction. It is often
Splitting lemma (1,092 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
semidirect product, though not in general a direct product. To form a counterexample, take the smallest non-abelian group B ≅ S3, the symmetric group on
Ellingham–Horton graph (444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and Mark N. Ellingham, their discoverers. These two graphs provide counterexamples to the conjecture of W. T. Tutte that every cubic 3-connected bipartite
Horton graph (603 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Joseph Horton. Published by Bondy and Murty in 1976, it provides a counterexample to the Tutte conjecture that every cubic 3-connected bipartite graph
Nubi language (1,146 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
who was Kakwa. Jonathan Owens argues that Nubi constitutes a major counterexample to Derek Bickerton's theories of creole language formation, showing
Complete intersection ring (847 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In commutative algebra, a complete intersection ring is a commutative ring similar to the coordinate rings of varieties that are complete intersections
Antoine's necklace (606 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
space, whose complement is not simply connected. It also serves as a counterexample to the claim that all Cantor spaces are ambiently homeomorphic to each
Borsuk's conjecture (1,511 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
derivation, one can indeed verify one of the constructed point sets as a counterexample for n = 1325 (as well as all higher dimensions up to 1560). Their result
Deuring–Heilbronn phenomenon (147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
discovered by Max Deuring (1933) and Hans Heilbronn (1934), states that a counterexample to the generalized Riemann hypothesis for one Dirichlet L-function affects
Hedetniemi's conjecture (1,853 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
products cannot be colored with an unexpectedly small number of colors. A counterexample to the conjecture was discovered by Yaroslav Shitov (2019) (see Kalai
Hasse norm theorem (500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
general if the extension is abelian but not cyclic. Hasse gave the counterexample that 3 is a local norm everywhere for the extension Q ( − 3 , 13 ) /
Joint spectral radius (1,511 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in 2003. The counterexample provided in that reference uses advanced measure-theoretical ideas. Subsequently, many other counterexamples have been provided
Carmichael's totient function conjecture (839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
exists a counterexample to the conjecture, then a positive proportion (in the sense of asymptotic density) of the integers are likewise counterexamples. Although
Barth surface (355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the maximum number of double points possible. The Barth sextic is a counterexample to an incorrect claim by Francesco Severi in 1946 that 52 is the maximum
New digraph reconstruction conjecture (736 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
false when P. K. Stockmeyer discovered several infinite families of counterexample pairs of digraphs (including tournaments) of arbitrarily large order
Min-max theorem (4,538 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linear algebra and functional analysis, the min-max theorem, or variational theorem, or Courant–Fischer–Weyl min-max principle, is a result that gives
Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem (1,607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
neighborhood is also a function of the configuration around the position. The counterexample given above for a continuous and shift-equivariant map which is not
Specker sequence (697 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
convergence. More generally, a Specker sequence is called a recursive counterexample to the least upper bound principle, i.e. a construction that shows that
Raphael M. Robinson (574 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
theory need not have an infinite number of axioms by coming up with a counterexample: Robinson arithmetic Q. Q is finitely axiomatizable because it lacks
GNU Bison (2,318 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
several extensions over this earlier program, including Generation of counterexamples for conflicts Location tracking (e.g., file, line, column) Rich and
Four color theorem (6,333 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
computer-aided proof. This came after many false proofs and mistaken counterexamples in the preceding decades. The Appel–Haken proof proceeds by analyzing
Wente torus (110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
constant mean curvature, discovered by Henry C. Wente (1986). It is a counterexample to the conjecture of Heinz Hopf that every closed, compact, constant-mean-curvature
Hartogs's theorem on separate holomorphicity (397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
not true that f {\displaystyle f} will necessarily be continuous. A counterexample in two dimensions is given by f ( x , y ) = x y x 2 + y 2 . {\displaystyle
Sphere theorem (614 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the closed interval [ 1 , 4 ] {\displaystyle [1,4]} . The standard counterexample is complex projective space with the Fubini–Study metric; sectional
Vladimír Šverák (209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
non-linear elasticity. In 1992, he won an EMS Prize for producing a counterexample to a problem first posed by Charles B. Morrey, Jr. in 1950, whether
Ring species (2,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
define an equivalence relation. A ring species is a species with a counterexample to the transitivity of interbreeding. However, it is unclear whether
Traditors (570 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of their broader view of the empire.[citation needed] Held out as a counterexample to the traditors was the venerated Saint Vincent of Saragossa who preferred
Vertex-transitive graph (646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Cayley graph. A counterexample was proposed by Diestel and Leader in 2001. In 2005, Eskin, Fisher, and Whyte confirmed the counterexample. Edge-transitive
Misconceptions about the normal distribution (1,555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
statistically independent. However, this is untrue, as can be demonstrated by counterexample. Likewise, it is sometimes mistakenly thought that a linear combination
Vizing's conjecture (1,034 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
for the domination number of the tensor product of graphs; however, a counterexample was found by Klavžar & Zmazek (1996). Since Vizing proposed his conjecture
James' space (382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
example in the theory of Banach spaces and commonly serves as useful counterexample to general statements concerning the structure of general Banach spaces
Harold P. Boas (591 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
spaces on large class of pseudoconvex domains. Boas also provided a counterexample to the Lu Qi-Keng Conjecture which was raised by Lu Qi-Keng in 1966
John Selfridge (1,583 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
p) for p ≡ ±1 (mod 5) is false and has e.g. a 6-digit counterexample. The smallest counterexample for +1 (mod 5) is 6601 = 7 × 23 × 41 and the smallest
Symmetric derivative (1,534 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
symmetrically differentiable, but the converse is not true. A well-known counterexample is the absolute value function f(x) = |x|, which is not differentiable
List of graphs (1,247 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
concrete graph on 10 vertices that appears as a minimal example or counterexample in many different contexts. Balaban 10-cage Balaban 11-cage Bidiakis
Theory of art (4,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
definitions are composed of necessary and sufficient conditions, and a single counterexample overthrows such a definition. Theorizing about art, on the other hand
Errera graph (1,110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with 17 vertices and 45 edges. Alfred Errera published it in 1921 as a counterexample to Kempe's erroneous proof of the four color theorem; it was named after
Kalman's conjecture (710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
localization of hidden oscillation in counterexamples to Aizerman's and Kalman's conjectures Discrete-time counterexample in Maplecloud Archived 2016-05-28
Keller's conjecture (3,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
unequal sizes are allowed, then the Pythagorean tiling would form a counterexample in two dimensions. The conjecture as stated does not require all of
Reeve tetrahedra (880 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In geometry, the Reeve tetrahedra are a family of polyhedra with vertices at ( 0 , 0 , 0 ) , ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) , ( 1 , 1 , r ) , {\displaystyle
Gödel's completeness theorem (2,330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
numbers; so if it is false, then some natural number is a counterexample. If this counterexample existed within the standard natural numbers, its existence
Conway's base 13 function (1,228 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematical function created by British mathematician John H. Conway as a counterexample to the converse of the intermediate value theorem. In other words, it
Kittell graph (115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Kittell, who used it as a counterexample to Alfred Kempe's flawed proof of the four-color theorem. Simpler counterexamples include the Errera graph and
Erdős–Woods number (900 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
later that he found the first counterexample, [2184, 2185, …, 2200], with k = 16. The existence of this counterexample shows that 16 is an Erdős–Woods
Meredith graph (286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
book thickness 3 and queue number 2. Published in 1973, it provides a counterexample to the Crispin Nash-Williams conjecture that every 4-regular 4-vertex-connected
Guy Terjanian (164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ph.D. under Claude Chevalley in 1970, and at that time published a counterexample to the original form of a conjecture of Emil Artin, which suitably modified
Law of excluded middle (5,621 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
excluded middle, while the converse is not always true. A commonly cited counterexample uses statements unprovable now, but provable in the future to show that
Petkau effect (509 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Petkau effect is an early counterexample to linear-effect assumptions usually made about radiation exposure. It was found by Dr. Abram Petkau at the
Tight closure (469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
closed in localizations of the ring. Brenner & Monsky (2010) found a counterexample to the localization property of tight closure. However, there is still
Divisorial scheme (448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In algebraic geometry, a divisorial scheme is a scheme admitting an ample family of line bundles, as opposed to an ample line bundle. In particular, a
Hyperplane separation theorem (2,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in the hypothesis cannot be relaxed; see an example in the section Counterexamples and uniqueness. This version of the separation theorem does generalize
Lie group–Lie algebra correspondence (4,460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to each other, but the converse is not necessarily true. One obvious counterexample is R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} and T n {\displaystyle \mathbb
Smash product (1,084 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Dieter Puppe. A proof due to Kathleen Lewis that Puppe's counterexample is indeed a counterexample can be found in the book of J. Peter May and Johann Sigurdsson
Osgood's lemma (243 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
true that f {\displaystyle f} will necessarily be differentiable. A counterexample in two dimensions is given by f ( x , y ) = 2 x 2 y + y 3 x 2 + y 2
John Erik Fornæss (436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
theory in two complex variables. He is also known for constructing a counterexample in several complex variables in 1976. Fornæss is a fellow of the Norwegian
Property P conjecture (432 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
K\subset \mathbb {S} ^{3}} has Property P, then one cannot construct a counterexample to the Poincaré conjecture by surgery along K {\displaystyle K} . A
Nagata's conjecture on curves (353 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
paper in the American Journal of Mathematics, in which he presented a counterexample to Hilbert's 14th problem. Nagata Conjecture. Suppose p1, ..., pr are
Reuleaux triangle (6,500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Reuleaux's original motivation for studying the Reuleaux triangle was as a counterexample, showing that three single-point contacts may not be enough to fix a
144 (number) (338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
instance in which four fifth powers sum to a fifth power. This is a counterexample to a conjecture by Euler that at least n nth powers are required to
Vacuum solution (general relativity) (841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
describes the geometry around a rotating object), Taub–NUT vacuum (a famous counterexample describing the exterior gravitational field of an isolated object with
Alfred Errera (298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dissertation he introduced what is now called the Errera graph, which is a counterexample to the validity of the alleged proof of the four color theorem by Alfred
Paul A. Schweitzer (513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
research on foliations, knot theory, and 3-manifolds. In 1974 he found a counterexample to the Seifert conjecture that every non-vanishing vector field on the
Maximum and minimum (2,094 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Peano surface, a counterexample to some criteria of local maxima of the 19th century
Generic polynomial (560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that group. However, not all Galois groups have generic polynomials, a counterexample being the cyclic group of order eight. The symmetric group Sn. This
1966 in science (1,327 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
through a direct computer search on a CDC 6600, they have found the counterexample 275 + 845 + 1105 + 1335 = 1445. Their paper announcing the result is
Pertti Mattila (546 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
applications to complex analysis and harmonic analysis. His work include a counterexample to the general Vitushkin's conjecture and with Mark Melnikov and Joan
Goldbach's conjecture (3,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
modern sense, then it would be a counterexample to the modern version of the third conjecture (without being a counterexample to the original version). The
Generic polynomial (560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that group. However, not all Galois groups have generic polynomials, a counterexample being the cyclic group of order eight. The symmetric group Sn. This
Baillie–PSW primality test (2,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Pomerance, Selfridge, and Wagstaff offered $30 for the discovery of a counterexample, that is, a composite number that passed this test. Richard Guy incorrectly
Walther graph (241 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
combining three Walther graphs to produce the Tutte graph, the first known counterexample to Tait's conjecture that every 3-regular polyhedron has a Hamiltonian
Joint embedding property (320 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
embedded into L3. However, K does not have the amalgamation property. The counterexample for this starts with L1 containing a single element e and extends in
Bystander effect (7,895 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim in the
Ehlers–Geren–Sachs theorem (677 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
scales. In 1999 John Wainwright, M. J. Hancock and Claes Uggla show a counterexample in the non-tilted perfect fluid case. Thus an almost isotropic cosmic
Language identification in the limit (2,594 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
be able to announce its correctness; and the teacher might present a counterexample to any representation arbitrarily long after. Gold defined two types
Margit Voigt (209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
known planar graph that requires five colors for list coloring, and a counterexample to a related conjecture that list coloring of planar graphs requires
Superabundant number (699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
this inequality has a larger counterexample, proving the Riemann hypothesis to be false, the smallest such counterexample must be a superabundant number
Multifit algorithm (4,574 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
If there exists such a counterexample, then there also exists a minimal (p/q)-counterexample, which is a (p/q)-counterexample with a smallest number of
List of statements independent of ZFC (2,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Akemann and Nik Weaver showed in 2003 that the statement "there exists a counterexample to Naimark's problem which is generated by ℵ1, elements" is independent
Tudor Ganea (791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
conjecture were proved, until Norio Iwase provided a counterexample in 1998. A minimum dimensional counterexample to Ganea’s conjecture was constructed by Don
Henrik Petrini (135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
gymnasium. In 1914 he finally moved to Stockholm. He is best known for his counterexample of a continuous function for which the Newton potential is not twice
Hans Witsenhausen (278 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
intrinsic model in stochastic decentralized control, the Witsenhausen counterexample, his work on Turán graph, and the various notions of common information
Stepsibling (374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
who take after their parents. The story Kate Crackernuts serves as a counterexample where the daughter of the evil stepparent is a loving stepsister. Many
Gettier problem (6,317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
knowledge. Attributed to American philosopher Edmund Gettier, Gettier-type counterexamples (called "Gettier-cases") challenge the long-held justified true belief
Shigeru Mukai (222 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Brill–Noether theory. He also found a new counterexample to Hilbert's 14th problem (the first counterexample was found by Nagata in 1959). Mukai, Shigeru;
Copositive matrix (582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the sum of a positive semidefinite matrix and a nonnegative matrix. A counterexample for order 5 is given by a copositive matrix known as Horn-matrix: (
Identity of indiscernibles (2,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
properties. Max Black has argued against the identity of indiscernibles by counterexample. Notice that to show that the identity of indiscernibles is false, it
Hodge conjecture (3,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
weakened. In 1977, Steven Zucker showed that it is possible to construct a counterexample to the Hodge conjecture as complex tori with analytic rational cohomology
Wolfgang Rindler (1,401 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1165R. doi:10.1119/1.1973819. ISSN 0002-9505. Rindler, W. (1968). "Counterexample to the Lenz-Schiff Argument". American Journal of Physics. 36 (6). American
Hilbert's twenty-first problem (1,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
A. Bolibrukh (1990) found a counterexample to Plemelj's statement. This is commonly viewed as providing a counterexample to the precise question Hilbert
Ax–Grothendieck theorem (920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
therefore be proven by showing that a counterexample over C {\displaystyle \mathbb {C} } would translate into a counterexample in some algebraic extension of
Krystyna Kuperberg (591 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that problem led to her 1993 work in which she constructed a smooth counterexample to the Seifert conjecture. She has since continued to work in dynamical
Domain of discourse (777 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is the set of real numbers, the proposition is false, with x = √2 as counterexample; if the domain is the set of natural numbers, the proposition is true
Mental model (2,430 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(Barrouillet, et al., 2000). They reject a conclusion if they find a counterexample, i.e., a possibility in which the premises hold, but the conclusion
Asplund space (704 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1090/s0002-9947-1976-0431253-2. ISSN 0002-9947. MR 0431253. Haydon, Richard (1990). "A counterexample to several questions about scattered compact spaces". Bulletin of the
Chris Freiling (341 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ISBN 9781139503143, Dougherty, Freiling, and Zeger (2005) showed via an ingenious counterexample that unlike the multicast case, linear network coding fails to achieve
Sharkovskii's theorem (1,418 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
2\leq x<3\end{cases}}} for which every value has period 3, would be a counterexample. Similarly essential is the assumption of f {\displaystyle f} being
Bayesian probability (3,423 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
differentiability or even continuity is controversial; Halpern found a counterexample based on his observation that the Boolean algebra of statements may
Nativization (1,968 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
where such a conclusion could be reached by scientific observation. A counterexample is the case where children of Gastarbeiter parents speaking pidgin German
Congruence lattice problem (5,506 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
lattices with at most ℵ1 compact elements, but F. Wehrung provided a counterexample for distributive lattices with ℵ2 compact elements using a construction
Arnold–Beltrami–Childress flow (570 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and particle trajectories are everywhere dense. The last result is a counterexample to some statements in traditional textbooks on fluid mechanics that
Independence Presbyterian Church (391 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
simple with comparatively little ornamentation, although a significant counterexample is the building's back wall, in which was placed a prominent petroglyph
Eva Kallin (623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
every topological algebra is localizable, has become a "well-known counterexample". In the study of complex vector spaces, a set S is said to be polynomially
Singular cardinals hypothesis (708 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
cardinals. In particular, then, if κ {\displaystyle \kappa } is the least counterexample to the singular cardinals hypothesis, then c f ( κ ) = ω {\displaystyle
List of things named after John Horton Conway (630 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Józef H. Przytycki Conway's base 13 function – a function used as a counterexample to the converse of the intermediate value theorem Conway chained arrow
Triaugmented triangular prism (2,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vertices and 21 edges. It was used by Fritsch & Fritsch (1998) as a small counterexample to Alfred Kempe's false proof of the four color theorem using Kempe
Square root (6,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
general. z w = z w {\displaystyle {\sqrt {zw}}={\sqrt {z}}{\sqrt {w}}} Counterexample for the principal square root: z = −1 and w = −1 This equality is valid
Common fixed point problem (2,015 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
functions that will converge to the counterexample to the common fixed point problem. Although the discovery of counterexamples by Boyce and Huneke meant that
Kaplansky's conjectures (1,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
disproved in characteristic 2 by Giles Gardam by exhibiting an explicit counterexample in a crystallographic group, namely the fundamental group of the Hantzsche–Wendt
Julius Petersen (1,477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to modern graph theory as we know it today. In 1898, he presented a counterexample to Tait's claimed theorem about 1-factorability of 3-regular graphs
Fifth power (algebra) (450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
can be expressed as the sum of k − 1 other k-th powers, providing counterexamples to Euler's sum of powers conjecture. Specifically, 275 + 845 + 1105
Moschovakis coding lemma (505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
A proof runs as follows: suppose for contradiction θ is a minimal counterexample, and fix ≺, R, and a good universal set U ⊆ (ωω)3 for the Γ-subsets
Irregardless (830 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
because it lacks the antecedents of a "bona fide nonstandard word." A counterexample is provided in ain't, which has an "ancient genealogy" at which scholars
Hilbert's seventeenth problem (1,268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Hilbert's proof did not exhibit any explicit counterexample: only in 1967 the first explicit counterexample was constructed by Motzkin. Furthermore, if
Modus ponens (2,445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
paradoxes of material implication). The general form of McGee-type counterexamples to modus ponens is simply P , P → ( Q → R ) {\displaystyle P,P\rightarrow
Axiom of determinacy (2,393 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
assumption of the axiom of choice, we present two separate constructions of counterexamples to the axiom of determinacy. It follows that the axiom of determinacy
Markus–Yamabe conjecture (499 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
stable. The conjecture is true for the two-dimensional case. However, counterexamples have been constructed in higher dimensions. Hence, in the two-dimensional
Hannah Cairo (515 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
constructed a counterexample that disproved it. Her work involved using fractals and other tools and originally resulted in a more complex counterexample before
Turán's brick factory problem (1,513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
If a counterexample exists, that is, a graph Km,n requiring fewer crossings than the Zarankiewicz bound, then in the smallest counterexample both m
Masayoshi Nagata (316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
describes the quotient of a variety by a group. In 1959, he introduced a counterexample to the general case of Hilbert's fourteenth problem on invariant theory
Tait conjectures (657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
non-alternating knots this conjecture is not true; the Perko pair is a counterexample. This result also implies the following conjecture: Alternating amphicheiral
Claude Ambrose Rogers (463 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Dvoretzky–Rogers theorem, both with Aryeh Dvoretzky. He constructed a counterexample to a conjecture related to the Busemann–Petty problem. In the geometry
Aracne (408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
London A counterexample to the first Zassenhaus conjecture Leo Margolis Winner (ex aequo) Germany/ Russia Vrije Universiteit Brussel A counterexample to the
Intension (1,055 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
term', but this is only an apparent paradox and does not constitute a counterexample to the claim that without intension a word has no meaning. Part of its
Lander, Parkin, and Selfridge conjecture (997 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
are positive integers, then his conjecture was that n ≥ k. In 1966, a counterexample to Euler's sum of powers conjecture was found by Leon J. Lander and
William C. Waterhouse (1,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Have Symmetric Solutions?" and the second was in 1995 for his paper "A Counterexample for Germain". The latter has been characterized as "a historical and
Jenny Harrison (778 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
at the University of Warwick. While at Warwick, Harrison produced a counterexample to a conjecture of Arnaud Denjoy (a similar one was discovered independently
Dowker space (354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
not resolved until Mary Ellen Rudin constructed one in 1971. Rudin's counterexample is a very large space (of cardinality ℵ ω ℵ 0 {\displaystyle \aleph
Robert Connelly (258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Conjectures and open questions in rigidity; A flexible sphere; and A counterexample to the rigidity conjecture for polyhedra. "4816 Connelly (1981 PK)"
Viktor Ginzburg (313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
periodic points for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms in many cases, and for his counterexample (joint with Başak Gürel) to the Hamiltonian Seifert conjecture which
Haida mythology (847 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
on one level teach listeners how to live a good life, but usually by counterexample. Raven has been described as the greediest, most lecherous and mischievous
Distance set (998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the same distance sets. The claim is incorrect, but there is only one counterexample, a pair of six-point Golomb rulers with a shared distance set. The equilateral
Gröbner basis (10,045 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In mathematics, and more specifically in computer algebra, computational algebraic geometry, and computational commutative algebra, a Gröbner basis is
Wheel graph (589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
all of its spanning trees, to be independent. The wheel W6 supplied a counterexample to a conjecture of Paul Erdős on Ramsey theory: he had conjectured that
Longest-processing-time-first scheduling (5,807 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The proof is by contradiction. We consider a minimal counterexample, that is, a counterexample with a smallest m and fewest input numbers. Denote the
Service pack (556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Slipstream (computing) Software release life cycle Windows Update One counterexample is Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a Example of Service Pack
Jacobian conjecture (1,907 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Dries proved that if the Jacobian conjecture is false, then it has a counterexample with integer coefficients and Jacobian determinant 1. In consequence
Robbins algebra (394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tarski, and others worked on the problem, but failed to find a proof or counterexample. William McCune proved the conjecture in 1996, using the automated theorem
Del (3,925 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
not necessarily reliable, because del does not commute in general. A counterexample that demonstrates the divergence ( ∇ ⋅ v {\displaystyle \nabla \cdot
Causal decision theory (2,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
probability less than 1, leading to regress. There are innumerable "counterexamples" where, it is argued, a straightforward application of CDT fails to
Causal decision theory (2,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
probability less than 1, leading to regress. There are innumerable "counterexamples" where, it is argued, a straightforward application of CDT fails to
Robbins algebra (394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tarski, and others worked on the problem, but failed to find a proof or counterexample. William McCune proved the conjecture in 1996, using the automated theorem
Natural science (6,144 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
proved, it could be refuted by the observation of a single counterexample. Such a counterexample would require that the assumptions underlying the theory
Saint's triad (310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
for a patient's clinical signs and symptoms, and his triad provides a counterexample to the commonly used diagnostic principle that "the explanation of any
Theorem (4,452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
about natural numbers that is now known to be false, but no explicit counterexample (i.e., a natural number n for which the Mertens function M(n) equals
Von Neumann's inequality (235 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
original on 2008-03-16. Retrieved 2008-03-11. Drury, S.W. (2011). "A counterexample to a conjecture of Matsaev". Linear Algebra and Its Applications. 435
Ribbon knot (594 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
conjecture might not be true, and provided a family of knots that could be counterexamples to it. The conjecture was further strengthened when a famous potential
Bunyakovsky conjecture (1,882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle x} since all of these numbers are prime. This isn't a counterexample to Bunyakovsky conjecture since the condition (2) fails. The third condition
Helmut Veith (630 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in history. Veith is best known for his role in the development of Counterexample-guided Abstraction Refinement (CEGAR), which is a key ingredient in
Flexible polyhedron (920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
original on 2012-02-16, retrieved 2008-07-27 Connelly, Robert (1977), "A counterexample to the rigidity conjecture for polyhedra", Publications Mathématiques
Gentzen's consistency proof (1,993 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1936 proof in a lecture in 1938 in what came to be known as the no-counterexample interpretation. Both the original proof and the reformulation can be
L'Hôpital's rule (7,140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The necessity of the first condition can be seen by considering the counterexample where the functions are f ( x ) = x + 1 {\displaystyle f(x)=x+1} and
Buscemi nonlocality (444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
generalized tests are called semiquantum nonlocal games. While, as the counterexample of Werner states shows, Bell nonlocality is known not to be equivalent
Boris Tsirelson (504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
l p space nor a c0 space can be embedded. The Tsirelson's drift, a counterexample in the theory of stochastic differential equations, is an SDE which
Cycle (graph theory) (1,857 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
of the graph exactly twice. Proving that this is true (or finding a counterexample) remains an open problem. Several important classes of graphs can be
First-countable space (837 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
algebraic variety over an uncountable field is not first-countable. Another counterexample is the ordinal space ω 1 + 1 = [ 0 , ω 1 ] {\displaystyle \omega _{1}+1=\left[0
Epiphenomenon (1,124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
then F is an epiphenomenon. The problem of epiphenomena is often a counterexample to theories of causation. For example, take a simplified Lewisian counterfactual
Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1,387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
published a counterexample to Alfred Kempe's false proof of the four color theorem. The Poussin graph, the graph he used for this counterexample, is named
Claire Voisin (867 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
methods in the study of algebraic cycles Voisin, Claire (2002). "A counterexample to the Hodge conjecture extended to Kähler varieties". International
Dirichlet function (819 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Dirichlet. It is an example of a pathological function which provides counterexamples to many situations. The Dirichlet function is nowhere continuous. We
Szymanski's conjecture (254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(1): 43–58, doi:10.1016/S0166-218X(00)00386-3. Lubiw, Anna (1990), "Counterexample to a conjecture of Szymanski on hypercube routing", Information Processing
Set-theoretic topology (1,588 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was not resolved until M.E. Rudin constructed one in 1971. Rudin's counterexample is a very large space (of cardinality ℵ ω ℵ 0 {\displaystyle \aleph
Jeff Kahn (mathematician) (262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Theory, Serie A, Vol.29, 1980, p. 1-19 Kahn, Jeff; Kalai, Gil (1993), "A counterexample to Borsuk's conjecture", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Σ-finite measure (1,484 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
σ-finite measure is s-finite, the converse is not true. For a proof and counterexample see relation to σ-finite measures. Finite measure Sigma additivity Klenke
Rational surface (555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a complex surface such that q and P1 both vanish is rational, but a counterexample (an Enriques surface) was found by Federigo Enriques. Bordiga surfaces:
Gelfond–Schneider constant (560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Hilbert's twenty-three problems posed in 1900 was to prove, or find a counterexample to, the claim that ab is always transcendental for algebraic a ≠ 0, 1
Navier–Stokes equations (15,481 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematics and has offered a US$1 million prize for a solution or a counterexample. The solution of the equations is a flow velocity. It is a vector field—to
Bore evacuator (635 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
modern tanks and some self-propelled guns. The French Leclerc tank is a counterexample; it instead uses overpressure from an internal compartment to force
Noam Elkies (1,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
numbers is supersingular at infinitely many primes. In 1988, he found a counterexample to Euler's sum of powers conjecture for fourth powers. His work on these
172 (number) (123 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
following 171 and preceding 173. 172 is a part of a near-miss for being a counterexample to Fermat's Last Theorem, as 1353 + 1383 = 1723 − 1. This is only the
Independence of premise (1,258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
rejected. The arithmetical example above provides what is called a weak counterexample. The existence claim ∃x (φ → θ) cannot be provable by intuitionistic
Blumberg theorem (1,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to determine whether a compact Hausdorff space must be Blumberg. A counterexample was given in 1974 by Ronnie Levy, conditional on Luzin's hypothesis
Deductive reasoning (8,761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is false while its premises are true. This means that there are no counterexamples: the conclusion is true in all such cases, not just in most cases.
Conical combination (455 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is unbounded. Moreover, it is not even necessarily a closed set: a counterexample is a sphere passing through the origin, with the conical hull being
Chiral knot (700 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
12-crossing and many 14-crossing amphicheiral knots in the late 1910s. But a counterexample to Tait's conjecture, a 15-crossing amphicheiral knot, was found by
Snark (graph theory) (2,760 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
vice versa. A planar snark would therefore necessarily be dual to a counterexample to the four-color theorem. Thus, the subsequent proof of the four-color
Israel Nathan Herstein (563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
305. PMC 534126. PMID 16589478. Herstein, I. N. (October 1965). "A counterexample in Noetherian rings". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 54 (4): 1036–1037. Bibcode:1965PNAS
Cubic graph (1,777 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Joseph Horton provided a counterexample on 96 vertices, the Horton graph. Later, Mark Ellingham constructed two more counterexamples: the Ellingham–Horton
Affirming the consequent (1,016 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
One way to demonstrate the invalidity of this argument form is with a counterexample with true premises but an obviously false conclusion. For example: If
Analytic function (2,233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
complex plane. The function f(x) defined in the paragraph above is a counterexample, as it is not defined for x = ±i. This explains why the Taylor series
Agrawal's conjecture (481 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
suggests there are infinitely many counterexamples. In particular, the heuristic shows that such counterexamples have asymptotic density greater than
Gil Kalai (729 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03732-X. Kahn, Jeff; Kalai, Gil (1993), "A counterexample to Borsuk's conjecture", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Romanov's theorem (964 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
noticed a counterexample, namely 959.) This corresponds to the case of a = 2 {\displaystyle a=2} in the original statement. The counterexample of 959 was
Thomas Schick (877 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with positive scalar curvature; in 1997 Schick published the first counterexample. He is the coordinator of the Courant Research Center's Strukturen höherer
Frederick Douglass (21,452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to claims by supporters of slavery that enslaved people lacked the intellectual
Apex graph (2,820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
minimal counterexample to the conjecture would have to be an apex graph, but since there are no 6-chromatic apex graphs such a counterexample cannot exist
Pinocchio paradox (1,763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
paradox is not a semantic paradox: The Pinocchio paradox is, in a way, a counterexample to solutions to the Liar that would exclude semantic predicates from
Bishop–Phelps theorem (282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1090/s0002-9904-1961-10514-4. MR 0123174. Lomonosov, Victor (2000). "A counterexample to the Bishop-Phelps theorem in complex spaces". Israel Journal of Mathematics
Géry van Outryve d'Ydewalle (1,822 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
stored counterexamples. Thinking and reasoning, 11, 349–381. De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., d'Ydewalle, G. (2005). Working memory and counterexample retrieval
Eilenberg–Niven theorem (305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
degree, then the theorem does not hold, and P(x) = x + ixi + 1 = 0 is a counterexample with no solutions. Eilenberg–Niven theorem can also be generalized to
Welfarism (3,708 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
judgments. Critics of welfarism frequently concentrate on specific counterexamples in which these general intuitions seem to fail, including cases of
M. Riesz extension theorem (1,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
functional on E {\displaystyle E} . Already in two dimensions one obtains a counterexample. Let E = R 2 ,   K = { ( x , y ) : y > 0 } ∪ { ( x , 0 ) : x > 0 }
Quantum scar (4,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ergodicity theorems. In particular, scarred states provide a striking visual counterexample to the assumption that the eigenstates of a classically chaotic system
Constant-mean-curvature surface (2,037 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sphere. This conjecture was disproven in 1982 by Wu-Yi Hsiang using a counterexample in R 4 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{4}} . In 1984 Henry C. Wente constructed
Vacuous truth (1,542 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
specifically the law that a universal statement is true just in case no counterexample exists: ∀ x P ( x ) ≡ ¬ ∃ x ¬ P ( x ) {\displaystyle \forall x\,P(x)\equiv
Artificial scarcity (1,753 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sources. Proprietary software is an example. Copyleft software is a counterexample where copyleft advocates use copyright licenses to guarantee the right
Tetrahedron packing (1,005 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of spheres, it was suggested that the regular tetrahedra might be a counterexample to Ulam's conjecture that the optimal density for packing congruent
Swinnerton-Dyer polynomial (346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
while being irreducible over the rational numbers. They are a standard counterexample in number theory. Given a finite set P {\displaystyle P} of prime numbers
Hilbert basis (linear programming) (471 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Joseph; Henk, Martin; Martin, Alexander; Weismantel, Robert (1999), "A counterexample to an integer analogue of Carathéodory's theorem", Journal für die reine
Syntactic bootstrapping (8,052 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
object position, and is the one getting hit. Wilkins proposes a direct counterexample to Gleitman's example of /put/ and /look/, attested in the Central Australian
Ornstein isomorphism theorem (675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(2007) "Metric Entropy of Dynamical System" Christopher Hoffman, "A K counterexample machine", Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 (1999), pp 4263–4280 M. Keane
Underwater basket weaving (1,396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
weaving. The weaving is, however, usually not done under water (see counterexample below). An issue of The American Philatelist from 1956 refers to an
Record label (3,721 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
much-publicized 1994–1996 feud with Warner Bros. Records provides a strong counterexample, as does Roger McGuinn's claim, made in July 2000 before a US Senate
Mean value theorem (5,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
be applied. The necessity of the first condition can be seen by the counterexample where the function f ( x ) = | x | {\displaystyle f(x)=|x|} on [-1,1]
Gerard Laman (504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
graph' from its original two dimensions to three, inspired by a simple counterexample, the 'double banana graph'. Laman 1959. Laman 1970. Pollaczek‐Geiringer
Yozo Matsushima (853 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
L] = L, is the direct sum of simple ideals. Matsushima constructed a counterexample. He then developed a proof that Cartan subalgebras of a complex Lie
Cosmic censorship hypothesis (1,667 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
2 ϕ a ϕ b {\displaystyle R_{ab}=2\phi _{a}\phi _{b}} which forms a counterexample to many formulations of the cosmic censorship hypothesis was found by
Moral universalism (2,477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
These principles appeared across all cultures studied, and only one counterexample was found: an instance of the “respecting property” value clashing with
Coxeter graph (732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vertex-transitive graph that contains no Hamiltonian cycle, the Coxeter graph is a counterexample to a variant of the Lovász conjecture, but the canonical formulation
Ax–Kochen theorem (917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
p-adic fields are C2), but Guy Terjanian found the following 2-adic counterexample for d = 4. Define G ( x ) = G ( x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ) = ∑ x i 4 − ∑ i <
Tangent developable (554 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
However, not every ruled surface is developable; the helicoid provides a counterexample. The tangent developable of a curve containing a point of zero torsion
Mountain (5,211 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the highest elevation human habitation at 5,100 metres (16,700 ft). A counterexample is El Alto, Bolivia, at 4,150 metres (13,620 ft), which has a highly
Per Enflo (4,339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sponsored by Ohio State University. Page 586 in Halmos 1990. Per Enflo: A counterexample to the approximation problem in Banach spaces. Acta Mathematica vol
Cohomotopy set (735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
might not be isomorphic to [ X , S 1 ] {\displaystyle [X,S^{1}]} . A counterexample is given by the Warsaw circle, whose first cohomology group vanishes
Local martingale (1,610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
{E} \mathrm {e} ^{|M_{t}|}<\infty } is still not sufficient; for a counterexample see Example 3 above. A special case: M t = f ( t , W t ) , {\displaystyle
Mean curvature (1,740 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
593–605. doi:10.2307/3647744. JSTOR 3647744. Wente, Henry C. (1986). "Counterexample to a conjecture of H. Hopf". Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 121 (1):
Pure mathematics (1,830 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mathematical Society 7(6):266–71. Levinson, Norman (1970). "Coding Theory: A Counterexample to G. H. Hardy's Conception of Applied Mathematics". The American Mathematical
Closed graph theorem (functional analysis) (2,713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
is not bounded (see unbounded operator) exists and thus serves as a counterexample. The Hausdorff–Young inequality says that the Fourier transformation
Unipotent (1,826 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
unipotent group is a nilpotent group, though the converse is not true (counterexample: the diagonal matrices of GLn(k)). For example, the standard representation
Epigroup (650 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
partitionable. However, not every epigroup has this property. A simple counterexample is the Brandt semigroup with five elements B2 because the unipotency
GCD matrix (1,377 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
lattice-theoretic approach is provided by Korkee, Mattila & Haukkanen (2019). The counterexample presented in Haukkanen, Wang & Sillanpää (1997) is S = { 1 , 2 , 3
György Hajós (575 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
However, it is now known to be false: in 1979, Paul A. Catlin found a counterexample for k = 8, and Paul Erdős and Siemion Fajtlowicz later observed that
Sophie Germain (4,706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
+ y {\displaystyle x+y} is also of that form. Gauss replied with a counterexample: 15 11 + 8 11 {\displaystyle 15^{11}+8^{11}} can be written as h 2 +
Hasse principle (1,220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of being a relative norm for a cyclic extension of number fields. A counterexample by Ernst S. Selmer shows that the Hasse–Minkowski theorem cannot be
Faulty generalization (1,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
all odd numbers are either prime or square, while in reality, 15 is a counterexample. The fallacy is also known as: Black swan fallacy Illicit generalization
Epigroup (650 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
partitionable. However, not every epigroup has this property. A simple counterexample is the Brandt semigroup with five elements B2 because the unipotency
Added tone chord (835 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
minor third down (e.g. C6 has the same notes as an Am7), although a counterexample is The 5th Dimension's recorded version of "Stoned Soul Picnic" (on
Geometric rigidity (5,449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
conjecture, leading to many interesting results discussed below. However, a counterexample was eventually found. There are also some generic rigidity results with
Risk measure (1,237 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Var(X)-a} for all a ∈ R {\displaystyle a\in \mathbb {R} } , and a simple counterexample for monotonicity can be found. The standard deviation is a deviation
Explicit substitution (713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(M⟨y:=P⟩)⟨x:=(N⟨y:=P⟩)⟩ (where x≠y and x not free in P) A surprising counterexample, due to Melliès, shows that the way this rule is encoded in the original
Ramsey's theorem (8,537 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
graph KL−1 with no blue Kr subgraph and no red Ks subgraph. Such a counterexample is called a Ramsey graph. Brendan McKay maintains a list of known Ramsey
Farrell–Jones conjecture (2,215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
contains all the counterexamples. Currently no counterexamples for the Farrell–Jones conjecture are known. If there is a counterexample, one has to enlarge
Pessimistic induction (516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
good reasons to take theories to be true or truthlike) via historical counterexample. Using meta-induction, Larry Laudan argues that if past scientific theories
Multiplicative inverse (2,360 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
associativity. In the absence of associativity, the sedenions provide a counterexample. The converse does not hold: an element which is not a zero divisor
Peirce's law (1,425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
always fail in non-classical intuitionistic logics. A simple explicit counterexample is that of Gödel many valued logics, which are a fuzzy logic where truth
Stationary spacetime (1,033 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
but the converse is not generally true, as the Kerr metric provides a counterexample. In a stationary spacetime satisfying the vacuum Einstein equations
Uniform convergence (5,415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
always continuous, to which Niels Henrik Abel in 1826 found purported counterexamples in the context of Fourier series, arguing that Cauchy's proof had to
Kyne (drag queen) (595 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
LGBTQ people cannot succeed in maths and sciences, and presenting a counterexample to the widespread belief that people can be analytical or creative but
Prüfer group (1,137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Z-module), Z(p∞) is Artinian but not Noetherian. It can thus be used as a counterexample against the idea that every Artinian module is Noetherian (whereas every
Toshikazu Sunada (1,044 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
S. Gordon, David Webb, and Scott A. Wolpert when they constructed a counterexample for Kac's problem. For this work, Sunada was awarded the Iyanaga Prize
Bias (statistics) (2,065 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Counterexamples in Probability And Statistics. CRC Press. pp. 194–196. ISBN 978-0-412-98901-8. Hardy, Michael (2003). "An Illuminating Counterexample"
Inverse limit (2,422 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
doi:10.1016/0001-8708(72)90002-3, MR 0294454 Neeman, Amnon (2002), "A counterexample to a 1961 "theorem" in homological algebra (with appendix by Pierre
Afterburner (2,620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
depends on the bypass ratio and can be as much as 70%. However, as a counterexample, the SR-71 had reasonable efficiency at high altitude in afterburning
Angular defect (834 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
case if the Euler characteristic is positive (a topological sphere). A counterexample is provided by a cube where one face is replaced by a square pyramid:
List of Banach spaces (449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
X\oplus X\oplus X} but not X ⊕ X {\displaystyle X\oplus X} serves as a counterexample for weakening the premises of the Schroeder–Bernstein theorem List of
David B. A. Epstein (958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Annals of Mathematics (2) 95 1972 66–82. D.B.A. Epstein and E. Vogt, A counterexample to the periodic orbit conjecture in codimension 3. Annals of Mathematics
Naturalistic fallacy (2,810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
would consider acceptable to do. This is pointed out as a falsifying counterexample to the claim that "no descriptive statement can in itself become normative"
Elasticity of cell membranes (2,053 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
PMID 9905557 Naito, Hiroyoshi; Okuda, Masahiro; Zhong-Can, Ou-Yang (1993), "Counterexample to some shape equations for axisymmetric vesicles", Physical Review
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem (3,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
direction is necessary for the theorem to work. Without that, we have this counterexample: there are only two outcomes A , B {\displaystyle A,B} , and the agent
Sign function (2,711 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
\operatorname {sgn}(a_{n})\to 1\neq \operatorname {sgn}(a)} . This counterexample confirms more formally the discontinuity of sgn ⁡ x {\displaystyle \operatorname
Cartan's criterion (794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
form need not be a sum of simple and abelian Lie algebras. A typical counterexample is G = L[t]/tnL[t] where n>1, L is a simple complex Lie algebra with
Commuting matrices (1,427 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
\ldots ,k\}} . The converse is not necessarily true, as the following counterexample shows: [ 1 2 0 3 ] [ 1 1 0 1 ] = [ 1 3 0 3 ] ≠ [ 1 5 0 3 ] = [ 1 1 0
Cauchy's theorem (geometry) (768 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Springer. pp. 91–93. ISBN 9783540404606. Connelly, Robert (1977). "A counterexample to the rigidity conjecture for polyhedra" (PDF). Publications Mathématiques
Aravis (890 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as villains to be evidence of racism. Aravis is often presented as a counterexample to this (along with Emeth, who is accepted in Aslan's country for good
Justin T. Moore (497 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Yash Lodha, produced the first torsion-free and finitely presented counterexample to the von Neumann-Day problem, originally described by mathematician
Nested triangles graph (741 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Planar graph used as counterexample
5000 (number) (1,498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
5749 – super-prime 5768 – tribonacci number 5776 = 762 5777 – smallest counterexample to the conjecture that all odd numbers are of the form p + 2a2 5778
Édouard Goursat (982 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
\omega } and is not true in general. Élie Cartan himself in 1922 gave a counterexample, which provided one of the impulses in the next decade for the development
Robert P. Dilworth (420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
2307/1969503, JSTOR 1969503. Dilworth, Robert P.; Greene, Curtis (1971), "A counterexample to the generalization of Sperner's theorem", Journal of Combinatorial
Symmetric tensor (1,794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
doi:10.1137/060661569. S2CID 5676548. Shitov, Yaroslav (2018). "A Counterexample to Comon's Conjecture". SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry
Kolmogorov automorphism (449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Amer. Math. Soc. Transl., Series 2, 39 (1964), 1-36. Christopher Hoffman, "A K counterexample machine", Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 (1999), pp 4263–4280.
Timothy Gowers (2,161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
particular constructing a Banach space with almost no symmetry, serving as a counterexample to several other conjectures. With Bernard Maurey he resolved the "unconditional
James's theorem (750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
2307/1994094, JSTOR 1994094, MR 0165344. James, Robert C. (1971), "A counterexample for a sup theorem in normed space", Israel Journal of Mathematics, 9
Fedor Bogomolov (904 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
four years passed since this publication before Akira Fujiki found a counterexample. Bogomolov's paper on "Holomorphic tensors and vector bundles on projective
Timothy Gowers (2,161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
particular constructing a Banach space with almost no symmetry, serving as a counterexample to several other conjectures. With Bernard Maurey he resolved the "unconditional
Qualitative comparative analysis (2,543 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
implies condition Y, then, deterministically, there must not exist any counterexample cases having condition X, but not condition Y. However, if the researcher
7000 (number) (1,291 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
normal magic square and n-Queens Problem for n = 25. Also the first counterexample in the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem. 7832 - pronic number 7841
Uniform limit theorem (831 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Counterexample to a strengthening of the uniform limit theorem, in which pointwise convergence, rather than uniform convergence, is assumed. The continuous
Bas van Fraassen (1,474 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Scientific Image, Oxford University Press 1980. Derivation and Counterexample: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic (with Karel Lambert), Dickenson
Risch algorithm (1,886 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
"theorems"[definition needed] are still being clarified. For example in 2020 a counterexample to such a "theorem" was found, where it turns out that an elementary
Graham's number (2,544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
contain no such subgraph if, for example, the bottom edge in the present subgraph were replaced by a blue edge – thus proving by counterexample that N* > 3.
Fulkerson Prize (1,965 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
arXiv:math/0408173. doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2006.05.002. Santos, Francisco (2011). "A counterexample to the Hirsch conjecture". Annals of Mathematics. 176 (1): 383–412.
Deborah Joseph (394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
This paper introduces the k-creative sets, which form a potential counterexample to the Berman–Hartmanis conjecture. Hopcroft, John; Joseph, Deborah;
Universe (mathematics) (2,649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
is the set of real numbers, the proposition is false, with x = √2 as counterexample; if the domain is the set of naturals, the proposition is true, since
Leonard Eugene Dickson (2,326 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
should be credited with the first correct proof. Dickson's search for a counterexample to Wedderburn's theorem led him to investigate nonassociative algebras
Dice-Sørensen coefficient (1,789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
metric as it does not satisfy the triangle inequality. The simplest counterexample of this is given by the three sets X = { a } {\displaystyle X=\{a\}}
Compact operator (2,659 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-97245-9. OCLC 21195908. Enflo, P. (1973). "A counterexample to the approximation problem in Banach spaces". Acta Mathematica. 130
Measurable cardinal (1,774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
union was κ, then the induced measure on this collection would be a counterexample to the minimality of κ.) From there, one can prove (with the Axiom of
Mattauch isobar rule (676 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
although 147Sm is unstable, it is stable to beta decay; thus 147 is not a counterexample). These ranges can be calculated using the liquid drop model (for example
Octahedral pyramid (628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
. The graph of the octahedral pyramid is the only possible minimal counterexample to Negami's conjecture, that the connected graphs with planar covers
Charles Paul Narcisse Moreau (761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
variation of this that he credited to Moreau. Moreau (1873) pointed out a counterexample to a lemma used by Adrien-Marie Legendre in his attempt to prove Dirichlet's
Intuitionistic logic (8,022 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
until a proof was developed that ruled out large classes of possible counterexamples, yet still left open enough possibilities that a computer program was
Second derivative (2,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
calculating the second derivative—but does not provide a definition. A counterexample is the sign function sgn ⁡ ( x ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {sgn}(x)}
Semi-abelian category (450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Palamodov, Appl. Categ. Structures 20 (5) (2012) 531–541. Wolfgang Rump, A counterexample to Raikov's conjecture, Bull. London Math. Soc. 40, 985–994 (2008).
Finitely generated abelian group (1,660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
finitely generated; the rank 1 group Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } is one counterexample, and the rank-0 group given by a direct sum of countably infinitely
Category theory (3,910 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
both epic and monic is not necessarily an isomorphism. An elementary counterexample: in the category consisting of two objects A and B, the identity morphisms
Sophie Piccard (552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
29–31, doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1943-07825-1. Bloom, Gary S. (1977), "A counterexample to a theorem of S. Piccard", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series
Model-based testing (1,853 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
checker detects witnesses and counterexamples. A witness is a path where the property is satisfied, whereas a counterexample is a path in the execution of
John Horton Conway (3,411 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Sloane, he invented the icosians. He invented his base 13 function as a counterexample to the converse of the intermediate value theorem: the function takes
Riemann hypothesis (16,783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
As S(T) jumps by at least 2 at any counterexample to the Riemann hypothesis, one might expect any counterexamples to the Riemann hypothesis to start appearing
Exotic R4 (754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
there are any exotic 4-spheres; such an exotic 4-sphere would be a counterexample to the smooth generalized Poincaré conjecture in dimension 4. Some plausible
Integer complexity (635 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
A005421, OEIS, retrieved 2015-12-13. Wang, Venecia (October 2012), "A counterexample to the prime conjecture of expressing numbers using just ones", Journal
Demazure module (820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
section 2), which is false; see (Joseph 1985, section 4) for Kac's counterexample. Andersen (1985) gave a proof of Demazure's character formula using
Quotient space (topology) (3,365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
y_{i}=q\left(s_{i}\right)} for every i ∈ I {\displaystyle i\in I} ). This counterexample can be generalized to nets by letting ( A , ≤ ) {\displaystyle (A,\leq
Northrop X-4 Bantam (1,671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
near Mach 1, although Vought's F7U Cutlass proved to be something of a counterexample—the developed version was the first aircraft to demonstrate stores separation
Le Potier's vanishing theorem (1,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
≥ n + r + k {\displaystyle p+q\geq n+r+k} . Demailly (1988) gave a counterexample, which is as follows: Conjecture of Sommese (1978): Let X be a n-dimensional
Darkhad dialect (880 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
([ŋ]; cp. Svantesson et al. 2005: 18) Rinchen 1979: 222-223, for a counterexample see 225 Sanžaa and Tujaa 2001 From the material cited in this article
Θ10 (449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
representations θ10 over local and global fields in their construction of counterexamples to the generalized Ramanujan conjecture for the symplectic group. Adams
Qin schools (1,447 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
seem to exist anymore—though there's always an old master or two as counterexample. For several generations the major qin lineage in Zhejiang has been
Hilbert's second problem (1,500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
reformulation of Gentzen's first consistency proof of arithmetic: the no-counterexample interpretation". Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 11 (2): 225–238. JSTOR 1556751
Pirahã people (2,255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the language lacks grammatical recursion, then it is proposed as a counterexample to the theory proposed by Chomsky, Hauser and Fitch (2002) that recursion
Tarski's undefinability theorem (2,271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
N {\displaystyle {\mathcal {N}}} . But the diagonal lemma yields a counterexample to this equivalence, by giving a "liar" formula S {\displaystyle S}
Weyl's inequality (1,038 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
non-Hermitian matrices (or more accurately, for non-normal matrices). For a counterexample, let t > 0 {\displaystyle t>0} be arbitrarily small, and consider M
100,000,000 (2,362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
number 893,871,739 = 197 895,745,041 = 1734 906,150,257 = smallest counterexample to the Polya conjecture 916,132,832 = 625 923,187,456 = 303842, the
Analytic capacity (1,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that γ(K) = 0 implies H1(K) = 0. However, this conjecture is false. A counterexample was first given by A. G. Vitushkin, and a much simpler one by John B
No-communication theorem (2,418 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
by means of shared quantum states. In 2008 Matthew Hastings proved a counterexample where the minimum output entropy is not additive for all quantum channels
Darkhad dialect (880 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
([ŋ]; cp. Svantesson et al. 2005: 18) Rinchen 1979: 222-223, for a counterexample see 225 Sanžaa and Tujaa 2001 From the material cited in this article
Taxicab geometry (2,518 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
have a taxicab length 2, but the hypotenuses are not congruent. This counterexample eliminates AAS, ASA, and SAS. It also eliminates AASS, AAAS, and even
Tolomako language (632 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
his fieldwork on the language A 1994 message from Jacques Guy, citing Tolomako as a counterexample to the thesis that all languages are equally complex
Eilenberg–Mazur swindle (1,099 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
same dimension. This is false for some noncommutative rings, and a counterexample can be constructed using the Eilenberg swindle as follows. Let X be
Mental representation (3,421 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Phenomenal states without intentional content therefore serve as a counterexample to the unrestricted version. If the state has no intentional content
Sylvester–Gallai theorem (5,245 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
example has also been called the non-Fano configuration. The other counterexample, due to McKee, consists of two regular pentagons joined edge-to-edge
Generalized Poincaré conjecture (1,280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is equivalent to Diff. Diff: False generally, with the first known counterexample in dimension 7. True in some dimensions including 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 12
Continuum hypothesis (4,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The rational numbers Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } seemingly form a counterexample to the continuum hypothesis: the integers form a proper subset of the
Vámos matroid (1,009 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is one of the smallest non-representable matroids, and served as a counterexample to a conjecture of Ingleton that the matroids on eight or fewer elements
Emanuels Grīnbergs (791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
graph coloring, graph isomorphism, cycles in directed graphs, and a counterexample to a conjecture of András Ádám on the number of cycles in tournaments
William F. Egan (806 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Y.; Mokaev, T.N. (2023). "Hidden Boundary of Global Stability in a Counterexample to the Kapranov Conjecture on the Pull-In Range". Doklady Mathematics
Lyapunov exponent (3,095 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
same initial data was subsequently called the Perron effect. Perron's counterexample shows that a negative largest Lyapunov exponent does not, in general
Security dilemma (3,096 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
not view the security dilemma as being the root cause of all war. A counterexample frequently given is the Second World War, where there was no dilemma
Mathematical beauty (3,561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with unexpectedness as a necessary condition for beauty and proposed a counterexample: A great many theorems of mathematics, when first published, appear
Triangle-free graph (2,524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
colors; however, Häggkvist (1981) disproved this conjecture by finding a counterexample in which each vertex of the Grötzsch graph is replaced by an independent
Colin P. Rourke (1,132 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Together, the two algorithms provided an algorithm that would find a counterexample to the Poincaré Conjecture, if one existed. In 2002, Martin Dunwoody
Deviation (statistics) (1,842 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
ISSN 0895-7177. Chen, Kani; Ying, Zhiliang (1996-04-01). "A counterexample to a conjecture concerning the Hall-Wellner band". The Annals of Statistics
Noetherian ring (2,770 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a non-Noetherian local ring whose maximal ideal is principal (see a counterexample to Krull's intersection theorem at Local ring#Commutative case.) If
Romans 5 (1,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
individual was Adam. Thus, Paul points out Adam as "precedent" (in form of "counterexample") for "the universality of Christ's atonement". Therefore as sin came
Andrew Wiles (3,066 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
no such elliptic curve could have a modular form, so no odd prime counterexample to Fermat's equation could exist). Wiles also proved that the conjecture
Confidence interval (3,999 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
intervals). Robinson called this example "[p]ossibly the best known counterexample for Neyman's version of confidence interval theory." To Welch, it showed
Finitely generated module (2,878 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
any ring R with unity such that R/J(R) is not a semisimple ring is a counterexample. Another formulation is this: a finitely generated module M is one for
Ascending chain condition on principal ideals (896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Heinzer, William J.; Lantz, David C. (1994), "ACCP in polynomial rings: a counterexample", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 121 (3): 975–977
Positive operator (1,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
space H R {\displaystyle H_{\mathbb {R} }} may not be symmetric. As a counterexample, define A : R 2 → R 2 {\displaystyle A:\mathbb {R} ^{2}\to \mathbb {R}
Intercept theorem (2,273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the converse of the second statement is not true (see graphic for a counterexample). The first two statements remain true if the two rays get replaced
The Student (short story) (2,620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
structurally most perfect" among his oeuvre. Chekhov referenced it as a counterexample when challenged that his works were overtly pessimistic, describing
Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems (2,049 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
must be capable of being parsed into a sequence of discrete events. [counterexample: Ligeti, computer music] Constraint 2: The musical surface must be available
Victor Lomonosov (270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1007/BF01080698. MR 0420305. S2CID 121421267. Lomonosov, Victor (2000). "A counterexample to the Bishop-Phelps theorem in complex spaces". Israel Journal of Mathematics
Canonical commutation relation (3,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Indeed, counterexamples exist satisfying the canonical commutation relations but not the Weyl relations. (These same operators give a counterexample to the
Ulisse Stefanelli (527 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ISSN 0045-7825. Caffarelli, Luis A.; Stefanelli, Ulisse (2008-07-03). "A Counterexample to C 2,1 Regularity for Parabolic Fully Nonlinear Equations". Communications
Susan Hermiller (365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mathematics Genealogy Project Brittenham M, Hermiller S (2021). "A Counterexample to the Bernhard–Jablan Unknotting Conjecture". Experimental Mathematics:
The Student (2016 film) (1,249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
disagrees, Venia then takes the extreme position of making his case by counterexample and he strips naked in the classroom to “prove” the error of her ways
Bernard Shiffman (673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Maurizio Cornalba: Cornalba, Maurizio; Shiffman, Bernard (1972). "A counterexample to the "Transcendental Bezout problem"". Annals of Mathematics. Second
Fermi level (3,266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
electrostatic potential (Galvani potential), but this is not exactly true. As a counterexample, multi-material devices such as p–n junctions contain internal electrostatic
List of unsolved problems in mathematics (20,374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Robert; Hahn, Jeremy; Levy, Ishan; Schlank, Tomer (2023). "K-theoretic counterexamples to Ravenel's telescope conjecture". arXiv:2310.17459 [math.AT]. Lisa
List of fallacies (6,890 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
makes a generalization true by changing the generalization to exclude a counterexample. Cherry picking (suppressed evidence, incomplete evidence, argument
Raj Chandra Bose (997 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
S. Shrikhande and E. T. Parker) a Graeco-Latin square of size 10, a counterexample to Euler's conjecture that no Graeco-Latin square of size 4k + 2 exists
Suicide of Kurt Cobain (5,425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
high dose could be survived, although he does not rule out whether a counterexample might exist (for updated information on the question of how to interpret
Modular exponentiation (2,759 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
always give the minimum possible number of multiplications. The smallest counterexample is for a power of 15, when the binary method needs six multiplications
Modularity theorem (2,430 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1986 that it implies FLT. He did this by attempting to show that any counterexample to FLT would imply the existence of at least one non-modular elliptic
Ermutigung (1,562 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
community. The defiant and hopeful spring metaphor can be interpreted as a counterexample to the nature poetry of Peter Huchel, whose works take a drearier and
Brute fact (1,652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
still be the case that the customer does not owe the grocer, per the counterexample of a film production. This fundamental ambiguity is essentially what
Evidentialism (1,785 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
justified only if one's evidence supports that conclusion. A typical counterexample goes like this. Suppose, for example, that Babe Ruth approaches the
Cube (algebra) (3,032 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Fp for such prime p that p ≠ 1 (mod 3), but not necessarily: see the counterexample with rationals above. Also in F7 only three elements 0, ±1 are perfect
Cube (algebra) (3,032 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Fp for such prime p that p ≠ 1 (mod 3), but not necessarily: see the counterexample with rationals above. Also in F7 only three elements 0, ±1 are perfect
Linearly ordered group (1,430 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
translation length), and it is the same group that was proven to be a counterexample to the unit conjecture. More generally the topic of orderability of
Projectively unique polytope (1,161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
David Assaf (1976) constructs a counterexample, showing that McMullen's argument must be incomplete. The counterexample provided is a centrally symmetric
Khabibullin's conjecture on integral inequalities (773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
function. While the conjecture is known to hold for certain conditions, counterexamples have also been found. Khabibullin's conjecture (version 1, 1992). Let
Desargues configuration (1,576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
literature, 12 years before Julius Petersen's use of the same graph as a counterexample to an edge coloring problem. As a projective configuration, the Desargues
Principle of sufficient reason (2,684 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
because although the facts supposed in the paradox would present a counterexample to the claim that all contingent truths are determined by sufficient
Masatake Kuranishi (929 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle n=2} (i.e., real dimension 3), Nirenberg published a counterexample. The local embedding problem remains open in real dimension 5. Heisuke
1755 Lisbon earthquake (4,648 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
closely supervised by a benevolent deity. The Lisbon disaster provided a counterexample for Voltaire. Theodor Adorno wrote, "the earthquake of Lisbon sufficed
Busemann–Petty problem (843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
several other authors. Ball (1988) pointed out a particularly simple counterexample: all sections of the unit volume cube have measure at most √2, while
Triameter (graph theory) (1,346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
these properties, even weaker versions. For (D ′ {\textstyle '} T) counterexample see the graph on the left in the figure, in fact it is both modular
Sigma-additive set function (1,649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
( A n ) {\displaystyle \mu (A_{n})} is also zero, which proves the counterexample. One may define additive functions with values in any additive monoid
Simple Lie group (2,384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
branches of mathematics, as well as contemporary theoretical physics. As a counterexample, the general linear group is neither simple, nor semisimple. This is
Mary Ellen Rudin (1,549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematics under Robert Lee Moore. Her graduate thesis presented a counterexample to one of "Moore's axioms". She completed her Ph.D. in 1949. During
Siren (mythology) (5,719 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
codices in this group, dated the late 12th century. As bird-like A counterexample is also given where the illustrated sirens (group of three) are bird-like
Limit (mathematics) (6,042 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Cauchy sequence is convergent in a general metric space. A classic counterexample is the rational numbers, Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } , with the usual
Universal grammar (4,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
research, Daniel Everett has claimed that the Pirahã language is a counterexample to the basic tenets of universal grammar because it lacks clausal embedding
Bernoulli scheme (1,761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Dynamical System" Hoffman, Christopher (1999). "A K {\displaystyle K} Counterexample Machine". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 351 (10):
Laura Nader (1,658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Zapotec (a group of indigenous Mexican peoples) acts as a useful counterexample to the trend. She claims the Zapotec used harmony ideology in a "counter-hegemonic"
Poincaré conjecture (5,324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
fifth and final supplement, published in 1904, he proved this with the counterexample of the Poincaré homology sphere, which is a closed connected three-dimensional
Game semantics (2,857 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
choosing, drawn from the domain of quantification. Note that a single counterexample falsifies a universally quantified statement, and a single example suffices
Orthogonal matrix (4,817 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
orthogonality, even with orthogonal columns, as shown by the following counterexample. [ 2 0 0 1 2 ] {\displaystyle {\begin{bmatrix}2&0\\0&{\frac {1}{2}}\end{bmatrix}}}
Skewness (3,968 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
asymmetric distribution with zero skewness. This figure serves as a counterexample that zero skewness does not imply symmetric distribution necessarily
Ribet's theorem (1,386 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
This provided a bridge between Fermat and Taniyama by showing that a counterexample to FLT would create a curve that would not be modular. The conjecture
Werner state (1,329 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
PMID 9902666. Reinhard F. Werner and Alexander S. Holevo (2002). "Counterexample to an additivity conjecture for output purity of quantum channels".
Phonological rule (2,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that proves the phonetic representation to be possible as well as a counterexample that proves, given the opposite ordering, an incorrect phonetic representation
Propositional logic (11,462 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
_{n}\}\models \psi } , can then be stated as its absence of a counterexample, where a counterexample is defined as a case I {\displaystyle {\mathcal {I}}} in
Alexander Olshanskii (612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
counterexamples to several longstanding conjectures in group theory, including the von Neumann conjecture. In 1980, he constructed a counterexample to
Damsel in distress (4,949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
distress, The Perils of Pauline (1914), also provides at least a partial counterexample, in that Pauline, played by Pearl White, is a strong character who decides
Ribosome (7,285 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
not easily admit these antibiotics into the organelle. A noteworthy counterexample is the antineoplastic antibiotic chloramphenicol, which inhibits bacterial
Grigori Perelman (6,319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
work had been "thoroughly checked." In 2015, Abbas Bahri pointed out a counterexample to one of Morgan and Tian's theorems, which was later fixed by Morgan
Models of scientific inquiry (3,259 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
However, it must have seemed at the time that they did. It only took one counterexample (Mercury's orbit) to prove that there was something wrong with his theory
Cox's theorem (2,382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
https://frontiersinai.com/ecai/ecai2000/pdf/p0571.pdf Joseph Y. Halpern, "A counterexample to theorems of Cox and Fine," Journal of AI research, 10, 67–85 (1999)
Race and intelligence (16,305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Du Bois, and the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar stood as high-profile counterexamples to widespread stereotypes of black intellectual inferiority. In Britain
Jesus Prayer (4,934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
God. It is not a means of self-deifying or self-deliverance, but a counterexample to Adam's pride, repairing the breach it produced between man and God
Pseudo-arc (1,382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Dekker, Inc., New York, ISBN 0-8247-8659-9 Rambla, Fernando (2006), "A counterexample to Wood's conjecture", Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Creole language (8,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
states "At this writing, in twenty years I have encountered not a single counterexample" (McWhorter 2018). Nevertheless, the existence of a creole prototype
Yamabe problem (1,425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
constant scalar curvature and is also complete? The answer is no, due to counterexamples given by Jin (1988). Various additional criteria under which a solution
Terence Tao (6,703 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dimensions larger than 5, based upon the construction of an elementary counterexample to an analogous problem in the setting of finite groups.[T04b] With
Naked singularity (3,596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
hole, beyond which a locally naked BKL singularity lies, providing a counterexample to the strong version of the cosmic censorship conjecture by mathematically
Rollo Davidson (628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1214/aop/1176995942, JSTOR 2242958, MR 0474454. Kallenberg, Olav (1977), "A counterexample to R. Davidson's conjecture on line processes", Mathematical Proceedings