Footnotes in LaTeX

Question

I'm trying to put two footnotes at the same location in my document, which is working, but the numbering for the footnotes doesn't correspond with the markers in the text.

The code I have is:

\begin{framed}
\noindent \textit{Sidenote:} The two results \footnotemark \footnotemark that Wiles needed to prove the theorem are given by the following equations: 
\begin{equation}
\rho_{f,p} \simeq \rho_{g,p}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
L(E,s) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{a_n}{n^s}
\end{equation} \newline \newline
\end{framed}

\footnotetext{Equation (1) is the equation corresponding to the $\varepsilon$ conjecture}
\footnotetext{Equation (2) is the equation corresponding to the modularity theorem}

and the result of this is that the markers at the word "results" are shown as 1,2 which is right, but the markers at the bottom of the page are both 2. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Please always provide compilable code, as this is much more useful than mere fragments.

Untested, but I think you want

\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}%
\footnotetext{Equation (1) is the equation corresponding to the $\varepsilon$ conjecture}%
\stepcounter{footnote}%
\footnotetext{Equation (2) is the equation corresponding to the modularity theorem}%

But it would be better to use the \label-\ref system for the equation numbers.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{framed}


\begin{document}
\begin{framed}
  \noindent \textit{Sidenote:} The two results \footnotemark\footnotemark{} that Wiles needed to prove the theorem are given by the following equations: 
  \begin{equation}
    \rho_{f,p} \simeq \rho_{g,p}\label{eq:rho}
  \end{equation}
  \begin{equation}
    L(E,s) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{a_n}{n^s}\label{eq:sum}
  \end{equation} \newline \newline
\end{framed}

\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}%
\footnotetext{Equation (\ref{eq:rho}) is the equation corresponding to the $\varepsilon$ conjecture}%
\stepcounter{footnote}%
\footnotetext{Equation (\ref{eq:sum}) is the equation corresponding to the modularity theorem}%  
\end{document}