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From Differentials to Derivatives
Robert E. Bradley and Salvatore J. Petrilli, Jr.
Which came first, the total differential or the partial derivative? This seems like a simple question. If we understand the question in the historical sense, however, we get the opposite answer, because the total differential is as old as the calculus itself, whereas partial derivatives were only defined in the 18th century. Continue reading
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