derivatives
This webpage is dedicated to an extremely important topic in Calculus: DERIVATIVES.
Derivatives allow us to find instantaneous rates of change.
They have many practical applications. (Here are some examples.)
Derivatives allow us to find instantaneous rates of change.
They have many practical applications. (Here are some examples.)
I hope this webpage encourages you to love Calculus and derivatives. Gotfried Wilhelm Leibnitz and Isaac Newton were the geniuses who discovered the foundation of the mathematical reasoning behind much of what can be found in Calculus, including derivatives. (You can read more about them here: Leibnitz and Newton.) We should be thankful! Derivatives allow us to do many things we could not do otherwise. For more information about the history of the discovery of Calculus, click here.