In the Introduction to the Derivative video we introduce the notion of the derivative of a function and explain how the derivative captures the instantaneous rate of change of a function. In the ...

The input argument fun refers to an IML module that specifies a function that returns f, a vector of length m for least-squares subroutines or a scalar for other optimization subroutines. The returned ...

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 263, No. 2 (Feb., 1981), pp. 493-500 (8 pages) Let $\Delta'$ be the class of all derivatives. The main goal of this paper is the investigation ...

Often the time derivative of a measured variable is of as much interest as the variable itself. For a growing population of biological cells, for example, the population’s growth rate is typically ...

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