Lesson 16 of 20 · about 16 min
Functions of two variables
The park is building a second pool, and the ground isn't flat. The height of the land depends on two numbers, how far east and how far north you are. You'll explore a hiking-style contour map of the site, slice it east–west and north–south, and find that each slice has its own slope, the partial derivatives. They're the first step toward how machines learn.
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In this lesson you'll learn:
- Function of two variables
- Partial derivative
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