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Numerical partial derivative
For a one-variable numerical function it's simple to calculate the derivative at a point with Derivative as @Szabolcs has pointed out before:
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How can I handle curve singularity in this NIntegrate integration?
Yesterday I asked a question about the non converging integral. Woods told me that it is due to the function which has a singularity along a line which passes through the integration region.
(Why ...
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Computing derivatives of a moment generating function
Dear Mathematica users,
I'm trying to compute higher order derivatives of a moment generating function and then evalutate them in 0 (in order to get some moment conditions for a GMM estimation).
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How can I differentiate Numerically?
Mathematica has two ways to integrate: Integrate and NIntegrate.
But what about D? ...
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Symbolic Integration along contour: branch cut problem?
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Following this question on path integrals in the complex plane, having defined again a numerical and symbolic integrator along a path as
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Dual complex integral over implicit path using contour plot
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I am interested in doing double contour integral over paths which are defined implicitely.
For the sake of debugging, let's assume its
$$\oint_{\cal C}\oint_{\cal C} \frac{1}{u\, x} d u d x$$ ...
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Symbolic integration in the complex plane
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While answering this question, I defined (symbolic and numerical) path integrations as follows
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ReplaceAll[] and Limit[] don't give correct results for this expression under extreme variables [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Funny behaviour when plotting a polynomial of high degree and large coefficients
1/x^2 + (3 + x)/(6 (1 - Exp[x] + x))
——This is a ...
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What strategies can I use to evaluate a limit when Limit[] returns unevaluated
I'm trying to find the following limit using Mathematica:
$$\lim_{N\to\infty}\sum_{k=1}^N\left(\frac{k-1}{N}\right)^N$$
The problem is taken from here and is known to converge to ...
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Quickly differentiate and evaluate a function of several variables
How can I differentiate a function with respect to several variables and evaluate it at the same time ? I want to specify also the variable index that I want to differentiate and the number of times I ...
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Is there any automatic differentiation package?
I'm wondering if an automatic differentiation package exists for Mathematica.
This is what I mean by automatic differentiation.
