The journal's "most famous episode" (according to Villani by June Barrow-Green and K.G. Andersson. The prized or lauded paper was to be published in
Acta Mathematica, but after the issue containing the paper was printed, Poincaré found an error that invalidated his proof. He paid more than the prize money to destroy the print run and reprint the issue without his paper and instead published a corrected paper a year later in the same journal that demonstrated that the system could be unstable. This paper later became one of the foundational works of
chaos theory. ==References==