“Analysis” is not a synonym for “Calculus” as most undergraduate math majors think, unless they have had a history of math course. Analysis is simply starting out with what you’d like to prove and working backwards. Since you don’t know what the number will be, you call it x. O...
Enter our friend Lubos Motl, arch defender and knight-errant of string theory (he will not see her virtue impugned), who has the habit of writing even simple numbers in Latex, who took Myers to task in the post “Sum of integers and oversold common sense.” Motl also takes pains at ...