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This is one book on infinitesimal calculus: https://www.amazon.com/Infinitesimal-Calculus-Dover-Books-Mathematics/dp/0486428869 https://www.amazon.com/Infinites
by Blammar 4y ago
This is one book on infinitesimal calculus: https://www.amazon.com/Infinitesimal-Calculus-Dover-Books-Mathematics/dp/0486428869 https://www.amazon.com/Infinitesimal-Calculus-Dover-Books-Ma... .
However, and this is very amusing to me, it turns out that the process of automatic differentiation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation, the section on dual numbers) works in exactly the same way. Just replace all of the primed symbols (u', v', etc.) with du, dv, etc. and dual numbers are isomorphic to infinitesimals (if I'm using that term correctly.)