Why Derivative: Invariance-Based Explanation

Authors

Julio Urenda, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

7-2019

Comments

Technical Report: UTEP-CS-19-80

Abstract

To many students, the notion of a derivative seems unrelated to any previous mathematics -- and is, thus, difficult to study and to understand. In this paper, we show that this notion can be naturally derived from a more intuitive notion of invariance.