There are many false proofs in mathematics. In addition to examples in our lectures, the following article is an MIT student project: ?
Xing Yuan, Mathematical Fallacy Proofs
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/100853/18-304-spring2006/contents/projects/fallacy_yuan.pdf
For this project, you need to
* Search the Internet to get more new false proofs different from those in our lectures and in Yuans paper. ?
*Get at least four examples, one for a topic in algebra, trigonometry, geometry and calculus. ?
* For each false proof, explain what cause the false proof, and how to correct it. ?Include the webpages as reference where you find the false proofs. ?
Attached is an example of the format and how the project should look, like please follow that format.
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