Timeline for Historical occurrences of mathematicians substituting terms for $x$ in the denominator of $\mathrm{d}y/\mathrm{d}x$?
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 7:10 | history | edited | Michael Bächtold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
hopefully clearer title and a comment on the motivation.
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 7:02 | vote | accept | Michael Bächtold | ||
| Oct 22, 2017 at 21:00 | comment | added | K7PEH | In answer to the question you may find some interesting stuff in an area known as Fractional Calculus. | |
| Oct 22, 2017 at 10:21 | answer | added | Francois Ziegler | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 11:45 | comment | added | Michael Bächtold | @terry-s that‘s conceivable. Yet, although substitution is common, I have not seen people write derivatives like that. | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 11:32 | comment | added | terry-s | It's conceivable that someone thought that substitution or change of variables in solving differential or integral equations might be too common to be remarkable here? (btw I didn't have any part in making that vote). | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 13:34 | comment | added | Michael Bächtold | I'd be interested in understanding the reason for the downvote. | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 12:25 | history | asked | Michael Bächtold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |