Derivative

In mathematics, the derivative is one of the two central concepts of calculus. (The other is the integral; the two are related via the fundamental theorem of calculus.)

References

• Spivak, Michael; Calculus (3rd edition, 1994) Publish or Perish Press. ISBN 0914098896. Explains why all this works.
• Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, Calculus made easy : being a very-simplest introduction to those beautiful methods of reckoning which are generally called by the terrifying names of the differential calculus and the integral calculus New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998 ISBN 0312185480. Introduced by Martin Gardner. "What one fool can do, another can."
• Larson, Ron; Hostetler, Robert P.; and Edwards, Bruce H. (2003). Calculus of a Single Variable: Early Transcendental Functions (3rd edition). Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 061822307X.
• Anton, Howard (1980). Calculus with analytical geometry.. New York:John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-03248-4.