SOLUTION: I understand that this theorem was proven incorrect and inaccurate by a computer a few years ago . Do you have any information about it john

Question 462361: I understand that this theorem was proven incorrect and inaccurate by a computer a few years ago .
Do you have any information about it
john
Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is "this theorem"? Is it the Pythagorean theorem (the topic you listed the question under), which is always correct for right triangles?

Also, computers are rarely used to prove theorems. The only example I can think of at the moment is the four-color theorem, in which mathematicians developed algorithms before using a computer to verify all the cases. Computers might be used as evidence for proving a theorem, though (consider all the billions of non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function lying on the critical line Re(z) = 1/2).
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