Derivative of functions.

Publication date 24 April 2002

derivative differential equations l'Hospital's rule local extrema mean value theorem points of inflection Rolle theorem Taylor theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to real functions (26-01) Foundations: limits and generalizations, elementary topology of the line (26A03) One-variable calculus (26A06) Rate of growth of functions, orders of infinity, slowly varying functions (26A12) Differentiation (real functions of one variable): general theory, generalized derivatives, mean value theorems (26A24)

Review text

This is the second volume of the series `Mathematical Analysis' and is devoted to differentiation and derivatives. The book starts with the necessary definitions such as local and global differentiation and their geometric interpretation. In the third chapter the properties of differentiable functions are presented, such as the mean value theorem, Rolle's theorem and Taylor's theorem. The methodology of tracing the graph of a function using derivatives is presented, such as finding local extrema and points of inflection. Finally, l'Hospital's rule is presented together with a wide variety of exercises.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe last chapter contains more than a dozen of real life models that can be formulated as differential equations and solved using techniques presented in this book.

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