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Nitpick: the act of taking derivatives is not "derivation", it is "differentiation"
by xamuel 11y ago
Nitpick: the act of taking derivatives is not "derivation", it is "differentiation"
- madcaptenor 11y agoNitpick squared: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivation_(differential_algebra) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivation_(differential_algebr... When I first learned this in a graduate abstract algebra class, however, I was convinced that my professor, who was not a native English speaker, was simply mistranslating from whatever language he was used to talking about these things in. (He was, IIRC, a Romanian, educated in Germany.)