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Prehistory of Faà di Bruno's Formula

2005/02/01 by A. D. D. Craik · 2 citations
Mathematics · #History and Theory of Mathematics #Mathematical and Theoretical Analysis #Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Equations

paper · doi:10.1080/00029890.2005.11920176

openalex publication_date 2005/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03

Abstract

poraries on the series expansion of composite functions. Here, earlier work unnoticed in these papers is described. These anticipate many of the results attributed to others. This earlier work originates with Arbogast, with later reworkings by Knight, West, De Morgan, and others. The series expansion in powers of x of a suitably-differentiable composite function g(f(x)) has the form

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