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For questions in Mathematics Education as a scientific discipline. For more hands-on questions on teaching Mathematics, please use the tag teaching. There is also a Stack Exchange community http://matheducators.stackexchange.com/

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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics

Some people believe there is no "formula" for the nth prime number. Of course there are many such formulas, even though not very useful: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeFormulas.html The reason giv …