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Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:14 am
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order says...



Can someone please give me some help with comparitve differentiation, as in differentiation with shapes?
  





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Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:18 am
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Sample problem, please?
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:22 am
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order,


I'm not sure what you're looking for here. There are Frechet derivatives and Fredholm operators, but these are concepts from functional analysis and are probably beyond the call of what you're looking for.

In my study of mathematics, I've never encountered "comparative differentiation," or differentiation with shapes. An Euclidean derivative (the ones encountered in calculus I-III) is a measure of the rate of change of a curve. Even at the level of vector calculus, you are still studying rates of change though now you are doing so in three dimensions.

As Snoink asked: Could you give us an example problem?


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Meshugenah says...



yeah, examples, please? I'll be needed help in calc soon enough, and the more on the bandwagon, the merrier.
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