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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: How to write integrals (was Re: The confusion of tongues (was ...))
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:43:51 GMT
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- kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball) writes:
-
- >One of my first calculus teachers tried to get us to
- >drop the dx completely, on the grounds that the integral symbol
- >served as an operator on a function,
- >and the x in dx was just a dummy index of integration.
- >No one listened to him, though... :^)
-
- Wow! I wonder if he ever tried to change the system of coordinates
- in a multiple integral.
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- Matt McIrvin
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