nonproof
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nonproof (plural nonproofs)
- A failure to prove something; the absence of a proof
- Here is another nonproof of the existence of God.
- 2009 January 19, Kenneth Chang, “John R. Stallings Jr., 73, California Mathematician, Is Dead”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 August 2024:
- In his 1965 paper about his nonproof of the Poincaré Conjecture […] Dr. Stallings ended on a musing note:
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