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### What is wrong with treating $\dfrac {dy}{dx}$ as a fraction? [duplicate]

If you think about the limit definition of the derivative, $dy$ represents $$\lim_{h\rightarrow 0}\dfrac {f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}$$, and $dx$ represents $$\lim_{h\rightarrow 0}$$ . So you have a ...
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### How is an infinitesimal $dx$ different from $\Delta x\,$? [duplicate]

When I learned calc, I was always taught $$\frac{df}{dx}= f'(x) = \lim_{h\rightarrow 0} \frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{(x+h)-x}$$ But I have heard $dx$ is called an infinitesimal and I don't know what this ...
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### $dy\over dx$ is one things but why in integration we can treat it as 2 different terms [duplicate]

when i am learning differentiation, my lectuer tell us that the deriative $dy\over dx$ is one things, it is not the ration between dy and dx. However when i learn about integrating, sometime we need ...
### How do we go from $f'(x) = \frac{dy}{dx}$ to $dy = f'(x)dx$? [duplicate]
As far as I know, the derivative of $y$ is defined as: $$f'(x) = \lim_{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{f(x + h) - f(x)}h = \frac{dy}{dx}$$ So $\frac{dy}{dx}$ is a limit, not a fraction of real numbers. I ...