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Modified link of Web site: Mathematics LibreTexts - Differentiation Rules. Oct 30, 2026
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Implicit differentiation. Dec 04, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Topics in Generalized Differentiation. Mar 27, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Babylon - Differentiation Rules (PDF). Jan 15, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Differentiation in Abstract Spaces. Oct 26, 2024
Add new Web site: OpenStax - Differentiation Rules. Jun 21, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Cambridge - NRICH - An Introduction to Differentiation. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Campus Manitoba PressbooksEDU Network - Calculus Volume 1 - Differentiation Rules. Dec 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Newcastle University - Differentiation. Oct 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Mathematics LibreTexts - Differentiation Rules. Dec 23, 2022
Added that the derivative of the cosine function is the negative of the sine function. May 06, 2021
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Basic differentiation. Aug 24, 2018
Add new Web site: MIT OpenCourseWare - Differentiation (PDF). Aug 24, 2018
Article revised and updated. Sep 28, 2006
Added new Web site: The Connected Curriculum Project - Interactive Learning Materials for Mathematics and Its Applications. Jun 30, 2006
Added new Web site: Probability Tutorials. May 22, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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