Marc LeBrun <mlb@fxpt.com> wrote:

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Keith Devlin has a non-technical article describing how the error was found: http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_06_03.html .

Math-funsters of more genteel sensibility should perhaps be advised that the cited page is also yet another inflammatory political polemic disguised as something else, in this case popular mathematical exposition.

One can always, in typical mathematical fashion, transform the concrete into the theoretical, treating 'right-wing' and 'left-wing' as abstract properties like 'red' and 'green', and then treat the concepts in the article on their own merits, ignoring any inferred agenda. -- Mark D. Niemiec <mniemiec@interserv.com>