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Chapter 5 Differential Calculus of Functions of Several Variables
One main new perspective in studying the differential calculus of functions of several variables is the concept of linear approximation. The concept of partial derivatives is a generalization to the multi-dimensional setting of the concept of derivative in one-dimensional setting, but it plays a subordinate role to the concept of linear approximation.
