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Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by nimonian on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:26AM (#50005581)
The greatest proof ever written by man, Andrew Wiles' FLT, was published with a flaw before being retracted and reworked. It's _completely_ normal in mathematics to find flaws in the argument. That's what peer review in mathematics is _for_.

Besides which it's not clear if these papers are considered published or preprint since they appear in no journal, so it's not really a retraction.

It's also very very normal to post preprints on Arxiv before peer review, so it's not the case that mathematics is kept private during review.

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Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:15AM (#50006074)
Not true. Wiles presented his proof in a series of lectures in 1993. The error was found by a reviewer, and he spent over a year trying to fix it. Once he did fix it, he asked colleagues to review it again, and only once it passed that review did he actually publish it.
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