
21 May
2002
21 May
'02
1:54 p.m.
This isn't really a Haskell question, but I'm hoping a fellow Haskeller might have some helpful pointers. Has anyone seen a generalization of the chain rule for derivatives that applies to applications of the S combinator? The conventional chain rule applies to the more restricted composition combinator: D (f . g) = (D f . g) * D g Where D is the differentiation higher-order function, "*" is multiply lifted pointwise to functions (\ a b x -> a x * b x), and "." is function composition. Thanks, - Conal