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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: D^k f^n ?
- Keywords: differentiation, combinatorics
- Message-ID: <1241@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 23:38:56 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.172604.6358@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <1992Sep10.172604.6358@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> frank@csri.toronto.edu (Frank Kschischang) writes:
- >
- >Let f(x) denote some function of x. Let D=d/dx denote the
- >operation of differentiation with respect to x.
- >
- >Question:
- >Has anybody ever worked out a formula for D^k f^n, the
- >k'th derivative of the n'th power of f(x) with respect to x?
-
- It's Called Faa di Bruno's formula. (Yes that's not a typo...) You can
- find one use for it in the work of M. A. Dostal and R. Macchia on the
- differentiability of roots of smooth functions. This problem grew out
- of Glaeser's wierdo example...
-
- Now the only place I can remember which is a reference for this formula off
- the top of my head is the book on Fractional Calculus in the Academic Press
- series on Mathematics in Science and Engineering. (The red ones with the
- gold letters.)
-
- No doubt now that we have the name of it, someone else might have a better
- reference.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-