Timeline for Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
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| Dec 13, 2013 at 0:58 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | @LSpice : I understand the case for that usage; in particular, it allow the use of $d$ as a variable, so that one can write $\dfrac{\mathrm{d}f}{\mathrm{d}d}$, etc. However, the usage with the $d$ italicized as if it were a variable is standard although not universal. | |
| Dec 12, 2013 at 23:20 | comment | added | LSpice | @MichaelHardy, if we're going to {\TeX}pick, then surely it should be something like ${\mathrm d}\zeta$ (rather than $d\zeta$), since the $\mathrm d$ is an operator (rather than a variable)? | |
| Oct 3, 2010 at 14:11 | history | edited | didest | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 8, 2010 at 15:19 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Let's see if you TeX code can be improved: $$ f(z) := \int_0^z \exp(\zeta^2)\,d\zeta $$ (The backslash in \exp not only should prevent italicization but should also result in proper spacing in things like "a \exp b", and the space before d\zeta seems appropriate.) | |
| May 9, 2010 at 18:40 | history | answered | Daniel Asimov | CC BY-SA 2.5 |