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Leslie Lamport: Some Data on the Frequency of Errors in Mathematics Papers [pdf] (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
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"Based on those reviews, I judged that exactly 1/3 of the papers he reviewed contained an error, which I defined to mean an incorrect statement in a proof or result that the author believed to be correct.

These were what I thought to be serious errors, not easily corrected mistakes. "




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