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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?
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Most harmful heuristic?
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How do I make the conceptual transition from multivariable calculus to differential forms?
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What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?
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Extremely messy proofs
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Where does a math person go to learn quantum mechanics?
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What is entropy, really?
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What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?
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V.I. Arnold says Russian students can't solve this problem, but American students can -- why?
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Prove that $C e^x$ is the only set of functions for which $f(x) = f'(x)$

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