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Chemistry is concerned with change, so we shall need to develop methods to treat rates of change in a quantitative manner. The differential calculus enables us to do this but first we need to discuss the concept of a limit.
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Hirst, D.M. (1976). Differential Calculus. In: Mathematics for Chemists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02585-5_2
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