Timeline for Do names given to math concepts have a role in common mistakes by students?
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| Aug 28, 2016 at 17:02 | comment | added | reuns | For matrices, there is also the positive entry / positive semi-definite problem. | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 9:55 | comment | added | Julien Puydt | @Mariano S-A: the words you cite are not all pronounced the same for one, and second, they're just variants of the same word depending on grammar, so there's definitely no trouble with them. | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 0:54 | comment | added | user9072 | Oh, another one where the same happens in German. | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 23:34 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | French has thousands of homonymic pairs of words: most French people seem to understand pretty well the difference between aimait, aimais, aimé, aimée, aimés, aimées, say. Why would university students have any trouble dealing with a few words that have two meanings?! | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 20:56 | history | answered | Julien Puydt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |