Category: Logarithms

After learning the rules (power rule, product and quotient rules, chain rule, etc.) and doing numerous exercises, a student realizes that the mechanics of Differential Calculus are not that difficult. Actually, they are almost boring, if it wasn’t for that one rule learned after all the other rules: implicit differentiation. ...

I am currently learning about this very powerful calculus tool. This tool is of great value in simplifying some functions prior to differentiation. I will try to explain simply in my own words. What are logarithms? Logarithms were invented by John Napier (1550-1617) for the purpose of simplifying calculation; basically ...