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::OK, well, I haven't read Stewart's article; I don't know exactly what Stewart claims. I was making an inference based on what the citation said.
::If Stewart does not claim that Cantor didn't find a particular transcendental, then there's even less support for the claim of "disagreement". --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] ([[User talk:Trovatore|talk]]) 06:06, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
If this doesn't qualify as actual disagreement, then maybe the DYK hook should get rephrased. But if it's not actual disagreement, it may still be accurate to say many actual mathematicians have misunderstood the matter in published writings. Many mathematicians including Dirichlet (who may be the originator of the error) have written in books and papers that Euclid's proof of the infinitude of primes is by contradiction. Most of that may be just following what they've read rather than substantially disagreeing. But some have written, erroneously, that Euclid's proof is non-constructive. "Disagreement"? Or (moderately) widespread error? If the latter, it could be a DYK hook if sufficiently supported. [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] ([[User talk:Michael Hardy|talk]]) 22:05, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
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