Talk:Newton's notation
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Am I wrong or not -- I thought Newton only developed the overdot notation for the derivative? Dysprosia 08:16, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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Charles Matthews 08:19, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I'm right! Yay :) (I'm not right often ;) I thought the guy that created the prime notation had a name starting with L - Lagrange, here's a ref [1], I'll change these accordingly Dysprosia 08:21, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I changed the interpretation from
to
Due to pages from the BBC and from the University of Texas at Austin
As written it was saying that the derivative of x with respect to t was somehow also the derivative of f with respect to t in one place and the derivative of f with respect to x in another place.
E David Moyer 15:10, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Use
Does anyone know if this notation is actually used today? I've asked several a few math professors and some didn't even know it existed, while the others said it was never used.
[edit] Move
The new page is notation for differentiation - apologies for the incorrect link. Geometry guy 22:06, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
