Thursday, March 19, 2009

The Chain Rule

I think the Chain Rule is just so cool. 
The Leibniz notation for it is

dy/dx = dy/du du/dx

In the book it says that these shouldn't be thought of as real quotients, but that doesn't quite make sense, because dy/dx means something like "the infinitesimal change in y divided by the corrresponding infinitesimal change in x".
Any thoughts?

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