Differentiation rules
Formulas for derivatives of sums, products, quotients, and compositions.
Let be an interval, let and be functions on intervals, and fix an interior point . Assume and are differentiable at the points where they are used. Then:
- Linearity. For ,
- Product rule.
- Quotient rule. If , then
- Chain rule. If is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then
Remarks
The multivariable chain rule extends the last identity to differentiable maps between Euclidean spaces.