Some key topics, roughly in order of their appearance in the course, include:
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- notion of functions, classical functions;
- limits and continuity;
- derivatives and their interpretation; differentiation rules;
- exponential functions, inverse functions, logarithmic functions, and their derivatives;
- linear approximation, differentials, elasticity;
- local and global extrema, higher-order derivatives, and convexity;
- function of several variables, partial derivatives;
- optimization for functions of several variables.
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Please refer to your section’s class schedule (Brightspace) for more details.