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I guess the question I was really asking was is the gradient of a function equivalent to the derivative of the function? But a quick look at the wiki page for
by coolgeek 5y ago
I guess the question I was really asking was is the gradient of a function equivalent to the derivative of the function?
But a quick look at the wiki page for gradient suggests that my calc I/II intuition of derivatives is insufficient here
- ColinWright 5y agoFor reasonable functions f:R->R, yes, the gradient of the graph of the function is the value of the derivative at that point. But "Gradient" is a term that's used in wider contexts, so the real answer is "it depends". But I've had a look at this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient And that really does say that the "Gradient" is basically the derivative, suitably generalised for larger dimensions.