Well-defined & Wonderful

Differentiation Part 1 - Differentiability


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This episode is concerned with the concept of Differentiability. Roughly speaking, we seek a quantitative method to assess the change (or rate of change) of a function. For this we consider its slope and try to define a slope at every single point in the domain of said function. Wherever this works, we call the function differentiable at this point. It turns out this notion is equivalent to the function being reasonably enough approximated by affine functions.

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Well-defined & WonderfulBy profmoppi