So, I was studying Apostol's book while studying on the site "Brilliant" methods of calculating multivariable limits...
In particular, in $R^2$ we have polar coordinates to switch on and we have: $\lim_{{(x,y)}\to(0,0)}f(x,y) = L$ iff $\lim_{r\to0^+}f(r\cos(\theta),r\sin(\theta)) = L$ since the statement $0\lt\sqrt{x^2+y^2}\lt\delta$ can be translated into $0\lt r \lt \delta$ from the $\epsilon-\delta$ definition of the limit while $x = r\cos(\theta)$ and $y = r\sin(\theta)$ (so the limit exists iff the limit exists in polar coordinates and it's $\theta-independent$) (taken from Brilliant)
But then Apostol came with the following function: $f(x,y) = \frac{xy^2}{x^2+y^4}$ if $x\neq 0$ and $f(0,y) = 0$ and things got messy in my mind because, if we switch to polar coordinates, it becomes $f(r\cos(\theta),r\sin(\theta)) = \frac{r\cos(\theta)\sin^2(\theta)}{\cos^2(\theta)+\sin^4(\theta)}$ if $r$ is different from $0$ and if we make $r\to0$ we'd have have $\lim_{r\to0^+}f(r\cos(\theta),r\sin(\theta)) = 0$
But, if you choose the curve $x = y^2$, we have $f(y^2,y) = \frac{1}{2}$ and so if we approach the origin by that curve we'd have $\lim_{y\to0}f(y^2,y) = \frac{1}{2}$ and by such we'd have the limit approaching $2$ different values which would mean the limit actually doesn't exist
So my doubt is about what is wrong about the procedure using polar coordinates instead of trying different curves, why the polar coordinate method didn't show me that the limit is "angle dependent" (and it doesn't exist in practice)? Did I make any mistakes in the procedure?
