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Directional Derivative

Before getting into directional derivatives, let's see how the partial derivatives, gradient and total derivative fall into together.

For this, we consider a function , which is basically a scalar function we multivariate input.

Derivative

Derivative is

Directional Derivative

  1. Optimization

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f:R2ā†’Rf: \mathbf R^2 \rightarrow \mathbf Rf:R2ā†’R
f(x,y)f(x,y)f(x,y)