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Re: Partial derivation with regards to variables in a list

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• Subject: [mg51023] Re: Partial derivation with regards to variables in a list
• From: "Peter Pein" <petsie at arcor.de>
• Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 04:50:06 -0400 (EDT)
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"Christopher grinde" <christopher.grinde at hive.no> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hello.
>
> I need to find the partial derivative with regards to variables in a list.
>
> The straight forward syntax would be
> D[f[a,b,c,d,e,],a,b,c,d,e]
>
> My problem is that I don't know the variables up front of finding the
> derivative.
>
> I've tried Apply[], but as I am quite new to Mathematica, I haven't been
> able to use Apply[] with functions with more than one argument.
>
> Please advice.
>
> -- 
> Christopher Grinde
>
Apply[D,Prepend[f[a,b,c,d,e],{a,b,c,d,e}]

or, slightly more general (and less typing):

D @@ Flatten[{f[a, b, c], {{a, 2}, b, {c, 3}}}, 1] to obtain multiple
derivatives
-- 
Peter Pein, Berlin
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