Talk:Leibniz's notation
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[edit] Needs work
This article needs a lot of work. The second paragraph (not the line, the paragraph) is nearly incoherent. The closing statement describing units merely hints at what I wanted to know. Maybe it's somewhere else; in that case, a link will be needed.
-Malakai
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- Does this look better now? Fresheneesz 00:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
"(One mathematician, Jerome Keisler, has gone so far as to write a first-year-calculus textbook according to Robinson's point of view.)" Why don't you tell us the name of the textbook, given that you tell us it exists? GangofOne 00:22, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- GIYF: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html TomJF 00:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merger
In the absence of any talk here, I have implemented the proposed merger by moving the content of Leibniz's notation for differentiation into this article. A while ago, I also adapted the notation here for coherence with that article. There is now a new (not fully developed) article at Notation for differentiation: the material here should ultimately inform this new article. I have made a similar move for the Newton's notation articles, where the issues are more straightforward, because Newton's notations for integration are not developed in wikipedia. Geometry guy 19:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- Good job. I have a question about this odd looking thing:
- Did Leibniz always write the function being differentiated on top of the line, instead of the nicer looking
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? –Pomte 23:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I suspect that the notation you suggest was not current in the 17th century, since it presumes the (later) idea of d/dx as an operator, and it was probably for precisely this reason that a more concise form was needed for multiple derivatives. However, I'm not an expert of 17th century notation, and they probably had a different way to write multiple fractions. Anyway, I would be happy if you would incorporate the notation you propose as an addition (but not a replacement) to the text, since it certainly makes sense, and is certainly now used. It could comfortably be inserted into the explanation for the origin of the d^ny/dx^n notation. Geometry guy 23:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
