Answer by Yuval Peres for Historical Mistake of Assuming Measurability
There is the famous mistake of Lebesgue. Quoting from Descriptive Set Theory: Second Edition by Yiannis N. Moschovakis , page 2: "Lebesgue's argument was “simple, short but false.” The wrong step in...
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I am recently reading about Fourier transforms and convolutions. It was a surprise to me that it takes quite several paragraphs to prove the measurability of innocent looking $f(x-y)$ (reference: proof...
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