Ten Misconceptions from the History of Analysis and Their Debunking

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Why does the widespread erroneous definition of "irrational number" persist without being taught?

Posted by Michael Hardy, at matheducators.stackexchange.com, 08 Jul 2016

Among the mathematically ignorant one often finds a mistaken proposed definition of "irrational number", which says that it is…

When should we get into limits in introductory calculus courses?

Posted by Sue VanHattum, at matheducators.stackexchange.com, 05 Sep 2014

All of the calculus textbooks I've used (teaching at community colleges) start with the first chapter covering limits. (Perhaps…

Why are we so careful in saying that dy/dx is not a fraction?

Posted by Chris Cunningham, at matheducators.stackexchange.com, 27 Aug 2014

Calculus instructors are mostly very careful to explain that $\dfrac{dy}{dx}$ is not a fraction, and multiplying both sides of…

Why is Infinity multiplied by Zero not an easy Zero answer?

Posted by Ashley Schroder, at math.stackexchange.com, 25 Mar 2011

I did a bit of math at school and it seems like an easy one - what am I missing? $$n\times m = \underbrace{n+n+\cdots +n}_{m\tex…