Differentiation rules
Formulas for derivatives of sums, products, quotients, and compositions.
Differentiation rules: Let be an interval, and let be differentiable at a point . Then:
- (Linearity) For constants ,
- (Product rule)
- (Quotient rule) If , then
- (Chain rule) If is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then for the composition ,
Remarks
These identities are the basic computational tools for the derivative and are organized and extended in the chain rule and related results (for example, rules used in local inversion).