The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio are finally here, and when it comes to women's swimming, Katie Ledecky is absolutely the one to watch. The 19-year-old athlete from Bethesda, Maryland, has already proven herself to be the top female swimmer at this year's games, arriving in Rio with a number of world records to her name, and will likely take home a number of gold medals when all is said and done.
Definition of differentiation. 1 : the act or process of differentiating. 2 : development from the one to the many, the simple to the complex, or the homogeneous to the heterogeneous differentiation of Latin into vernaculars.
The Definition of Differentiation. The essence of calculus is the derivative. The derivative is the instantaneous rate of change of a function with respect to one of its variables. This is equivalent to finding the slope of the tangent line to the function at a point. Let's use the view of derivatives as tangents to motivate a geometric definition of the derivative.