Timeline for Different ways of thinking about the derivative
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| Aug 2, 2012 at 8:08 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | But the graph can have an infinite sequence of zig-zags/edges approaching $p$ and still be differentiable at $p$... | |
| May 18, 2010 at 12:25 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | Yes, but then you should formulate this different way of thinking. In many cases, it happens to be one already mentioned by Thurston. | |
| May 18, 2010 at 1:19 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Different definitions lend themselves to different ways of thinking, so this isn't so bad, I think. | |
| May 18, 2010 at 1:13 | comment | added | KConrad | My answer was a way of thinking about the derivative: anything which is additive with a product rule can have all the intuitions and expectations of the derivative applied to it (maybe with some surprises in characteristic p). | |
| May 18, 2010 at 0:51 | history | answered | Martin Brandenburg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |