Scientific American presents The Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. In everyday language, the word "limit" is used to describe ...

In the Idea of Limits video, we introduce the idea of limits and discuss how it underpins all of the major concepts in calculus. In the Limit Laws video, we introduce the limit laws and discuss how to ...

THE technical use of the term ‘limit’ in mathematics retains much of the original meaning of the Latin limes, a boundary line, from which it is derived. The notion of limit is also a boundary in ...