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We sometimes come across quantities that are functions of more than one independent variable. Thus, we may find a case where y depends on two other variable quantities, one of which we will call u and the other v. In symbols y = f(u, v).

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Thompson, S.P. (1965). Partial Differentiation. In: Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which are Generally called by the Terrifying names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00487-4_16

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