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On Differentiation from First Principles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

E. G. Phillips
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Questions on differentiating from first principles many of the elementary functions, such as sin x, xn , log x, ax , are still often set in examination papers on elementary Differential Calculus, in spite of the difficulties of evaluating rigorously the necessary limits.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 22 , Issue 251 , October 1938 , pp. 374 - 376
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1938

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Page 375 of note * Pure Mathematics (1925), p. 389.

Page no 375 not † See, for example, Durell, and Robson, , Elementary Calculus, II, p. 251 Google Scholar seq.