Re:Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjec...
by Moodles on Thursday September 20, 2018 @06:31PM
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Some fun large counterexamples to conjectures: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/514/conjectures-tha... So maybe Fermat's Last Theorem etc isn't always obviously true. But I do get your point.
Obvious in this case means something like “clear to a mathematician familiar with the field” or “otherwise many things will fall apart”
This leads to the situation where if a mistake is found in a theorem then it is likely still true even if the proof is wrong.