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Gradients and the Chain Rule

Although we think of the gradient as a part of calculus, they are contained in Maple in the linalg package. This is because they are actually an application of linear algebra to calculus. Let's see what we mean by this statement after we've loaded the linalg package.

> restart:with(linalg):

Gradients and Hessians

The Chain Rule

Convolution and the Chain Rule

Exercises