Abstract
The author responds to an article about the application of the chain rule history to the didactics of calculus by Omar Hernández Rodríguez and Jorge M. López Fernández in the same issue. Particularly, they discussed how the chain rule was used by mathematician Guillaume L'Hôpital in the analysis of curves. He believes that one danger of historical mathematical thought is its influence on semiotics. He adds that they failed to mention L'Hôpital's concept of function.
Original language | English GB |
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Pages (from-to) | 333-338 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Mathematics Enthusiast |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 2 |
State | Published - 2010 |