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Visually deceptive “proofs” which are mathematically wrong

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120 73 $begingroup$ Related: Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain Beside the wonderful examples above, there should also be counterexamples, where visually intuitive demonstrations are actually wrong. (e.g. missing square puzzle) Do you know the other examples? soft-question education big-list fake-proofs visualization share | cite | improve this question edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:19 community wiki 4 revs, 3 users 62% puzzlet