Two-sided Improper Integrals: Can I Take Both Limits at Once?
We have a question about an improper integral, where one is strongly tempted to take a shortcut that makes it convergent, though the proper definition does not. Why can’t we do this? We’ll see something of the freedom mathematicians have in the matter of definitions, as well as why the standard definition has to be …
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