Due to inadequate understanding in physics, mathematicians have made misleading erroneous claims in general relativity that result in awarding three times the Fields Medal in 1982 to S. T. Yau, and 1990 to E. Witten, and the 2011 Shaw Prize to D. Christodoulou. It is pointed out that they failed to discover that there are no bounded dynamic solutions for the Einstein equation as Gullstrand suspected. Thus, the existence of bounded dynamic solutions was implicitly, but incorrectly assumed. This error currently prevents the necessary rectification of general relativity that leads to the unification of gravitation and electromagnetism. Also, similar errors have been made by D. Hilbert and M. Atiyah.