It is evident that: 1. Therefore, the relation is the limit of the relation of m O to O M [15]. Thus, if the limit of the relation between m O to O M is found, expressed algebraically, we obtain the algebraic expression of the relation of MP to PQ and, consequently, the algebraic expression of the ordinate relation at the subtangent, where this sub tangent will be found [16].
So is in general the relation of m O to O M, at any part for which we take point m. This relation is always smaller than , but the smaller z , the more this relation will be augmented.
And, as we can extend z as little as is desired, we can approach the relation as close as we want to the relation. Thus, is the limit of the relation of , which is to say of the relation. So, is equal to , which we have found also to be the limit of the relation of m O to OM , because two magnitudes which make the limit of the same magnitude, are necessarily equal between them [19]. By hypothesis, the quantity Y can approach Z as closely as we desire.
That is to say that the difference between Y and X can be as small as wished. Therefore, since Z differs from X by the quantity V , it follows that Y cannot approach Z any closer than the quantity V, and consequently, that of Z is not the limit of Y , which is contrary to the hypothesis [20]. Limit , Exhaustion. Thus, the result is that is equal to. What does that mean? There is no absurdity in this, because can be equal to anything desired: it therefore can be.
This limit is the quantity of which the relation keeps approaching in supposing z and u both real and decreasing, and of which this relation approaches almost anything desired. See Limit , Series , Progression , etc. One gets the impression from all this, that we intend to say that the method of the differential calculus gives us exactly the same relation that comes from that given by the preceding calculus.
Other examples become even more complicated. The latter appears to us to suffice to make the true metaphysics of the differential calculus initially understood. When understood well once, the supposition that one has made of infinitely small quantities will be felt to be only for abridging and simplifying reasoning.
However, as the foundation of the differential calculus does not necessarily presume the existence of these quantities, as the calculus only consists in algebraically determining the limit of a relation that has already been expressed in lines, and in equaling these two limits, which allows us to find one of the lines for which we search [27].
This definition is, perhaps, the most precise and clearest that can be given for the differential calculus. Still, it cannot be very well understood when the calculus has been made familiar, because often the true definition of a science can only be very sensible to those who have studied science. See Preliminary Discourse, p. In the preceding example, the known geometric limit of the relation of z to u is the relation of the ordinate to the subtangent.
With the differential calculus is sought the algebraic limit of the relation of z to u , and is found. Thus naming s the subtangent, we have. It thus will suffice to make more familiar in the example above, the tangents of the parabola, and as the entire differential calculus can be reduced to a problem of tangents, it follows that the preceding principles may always be applied to different problems that are resolved by the calculus, as the invention of maxima and minima , points of inflection and folding rebroussement , Etc.
See these words. How, in effect, can one find the maximum or minimum? It is, evidently, to give the difference of dy equal to zero or to infinity, but to speak more exactly, it is to search for the quantity , which expresses the limit of the relation of a finite dy to a finite dx , and then makes this quantity either nothing or infinite. And there, the mystery is completely explained. It's : that's to say that we look for the value of x which makes the limit of the relation of finite dy to finite dx infinite.
We've seen above that there is no clean point of infinitely small quantities of the first order within the differential calculus, that the quantities that one therefore names are supposed to be divided by other quantities which are supposed to be infinitely small, and that in this state, they mark, not infinitely small quantities, nor even fractions, of which the numerator and the denominator are infinitely small, but the limit of a relation between two finite quantities.
There are even second differences, and others of a more elevated order. In geometry, there is no true point d d y , but when d d y is encountered in an equation, it is supposed to be divided by a quantity, dx 2 , or another of the same order.
In this state, what is? It is the limit of the relation, , divided by d x , or what will be still clearer, it is, in making a finite quantity, the limit.
The differentio-differential calculus is the method of differentiating differential magnitudes, and the differentio-differential quantity is called the differential of a differential. As the letter d denotes a differential , that of the differential of dx is ddx , and the differential of ddx is dddx , or d 2 x, d 3 x , Etc. The differential of a finite ordinary quantity is called a differential of the first degree or of the first order, like dx.
A differential of the second degree or the second order, that one also calls, as we shall come to see, differentio-differential quantity, is the infinitely small part of a differential quantity of the first degree, like ddx , dxdx , or dx 2 , dxdy , etc.
A differential of the third degree is an infinitely small part of a differential quantity of the second degree, like dddx , dx 3 , dxdydz , and so on. Differentials of the first order are nevertheless called, first differences ; those of the second, second differences ; those of the third, third differences. The second power of dx 2 of a differential of the first order is an infinitely small quantity of the second order. This is because dx 2 : dx :: dx.
We speak here of infinitely small quantities, and we've spoken earlier in this article to conform to ordinary language; because by what we've already said of metaphysics of the differential calculus, and by what we have still to say, it will be seen that this way of speaking is only an expression abridged and obscure in appearance, corresponding to something very clear and very simple.
Differential powers, like dx 2 , are differentiated in the same way as the powers of ordinary quantities. And as composite differentials are each multiplied or divided, or are powers of first-degree differentials , these differentials are differentiated even as ordinary magnitudes.
Thus, the difference of dx m is m dx m —1 ddx , and so on. For this reason, the differentio-differential calculus is basically the same as the differential calculus. A well-known author of our day remarks in the preface of a work on Geometrie de l'Infini , that there will be found no geometer who could have precisely explained what the difference of d y is , having become equal to infinity within certain points of inflection.
Nothing, however, is simpler: at the point of inflection, the quantity is a maximum or a minimum. For example, let.
We eliminate the dx 2 to abbreviate, but it is not really supposed to exist. It is then that we are often ready, in the Sciences, for ways of abbreviated speaking, which can induce an error when we do not understand the true sense. A function for which a differential exists is called differentiable at the point in question. The formulas and the rules for computing derivatives lead to corresponding formulas and rules for calculating differentials. This property is known the invariance of the form of the differential.
The fundamental theorems of differential calculus for functions of a single variable are usually considered to include the Rolle theorem , the Legendre theorem on finite variation , the Cauchy theorem , and the Taylor formula. These theorems underlie the most important applications of differential calculus to the study of properties of functions — such as increasing and decreasing functions, convex and concave graphs, finding the extrema, points of inflection, and the asymptotes of a graph cf.
Extremum ; Point of inflection ; Asymptote. Differential calculus makes it possible to compute the limits of a function in many cases when this is not feasible by the simplest limit theorems cf.
Indefinite limits and expressions, evaluations of. Differential calculus is extensively applied in many fields of mathematics, in particular in geometry. For the sake of simplicity the case of functions in two variables with certain exceptions is considered below, but all relevant concepts are readily extended to functions in three or more variables.
It is assumed that. The partial derivatives of second and higher orders obtained by differentiation with respect to different variables are known as mixed partial derivatives. To each partial derivative corresponds some partial differential, obtained by its multiplication by the differentials of the independent variables taken to the powers equal to the number of differentiations with respect to the respective variable.
In this context, the expression. A function which is differentiable at a point is continuous at that point the converse proposition is not always true! Moreover, differentiability entails the existence of finite partial derivatives. The existence of finite partial derivatives does not, in the general case, entail differentiability unlike in the case of functions in a single variable.
Total differentials of higher orders are, as in the case of functions of one variable, introduced by induction, by the equation. Repeated differentials are defined in a similar manner. The following theorems then hold:. Thus, the property of invariance of the first differential also applies to functions in several variables. It does not usually apply to differentials of the second or higher orders.
Differential calculus is also employed in the study of the properties of functions in several variables: finding extrema, the study of functions defined by one or more implicit equations, the theory of surfaces, etc. One of the principal tools for such purposes is the Taylor formula.
The concepts of derivative and differential and their simplest properties, connected with arithmetical operations over functions and superposition of functions, including the property of invariance of the first differential, are extended, practically unchanged, to complex-valued functions in one or more variables, to real-valued and complex-valued vector functions in one or several real variables, and to complex-valued functions and vector functions in one or several complex variables.
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