differential coefficient

In mathematics, differential coefficient is a term out of use now.

He was perhaps the first to conceive the differential coefficient and differential calculus.

Conceived differential calculus, after discovering the derivative and differential coefficient.

The mathematical term differential coefficient has been mostly displaced by the modern term derivative.

Discovered the differential coefficient.

The differential coefficient of f is a constant function only if f is a linear function.

In his 1998 update of this text, Martin Gardner puts "derivative" instead of "differential coefficient".

In mathematics, a coefficient is a constant multiplication of a function was once called its differential coefficient, a usage now mostly displaced by the modern term.

The former differential coefficient of a function f(x) is now called its derivative df(x)/dx.

The differential equations of Maxwell connect the spacial and temporal differential coefficients of the electric and magnetic fields.

The resolution of the questions concerning the motion of fluids was effected by means of Leonhard Euler's partial differential coefficients.

Bhaskara also goes deeper into the 'differential calculus' and suggests the differential coefficient vanishes at an extremum value of the function, indicating knowledge of the concept of 'infinitesimals'.

Martin Gardner lets the first use of "differential coefficient" stand, along with Thompson's criticism of the term as a needlessly obscure phrase that should not intimidate students, and substitutes "derivative" for the remainder of the book.

He was also one of the early founders of the theory of determinants; in particular, he invented the Jacobian determinant formed from the n2 differential coefficients of n given functions of n independent variables, and which has played an important part in many analytical investigations.

The aberrations can also be expressed by means of the characteristic function of the system and its differential coefficients, instead of by the radii, &c., of the lenses; these formulae are not immediately applicable, but give, however, the relation between the number of aberrations and the order.