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In studying SIR and other phenomena in Chap. 1, we contented ourselves with an intuitive, or heuristic, understanding of what a rate of change actually is. That is, we generally avoided defining rate of change in a mathematically precise way.
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Stade, E., Stade, E. (2023). The Derivative. In: Calculus: A Modeling and Computational Thinking Approach. Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24681-4_2
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