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In nonstandard analysis, a field of mathematics, the increment theorem states the following: Suppose a function f is differentiable at x and that Δx is infinitesimal. Then

$\Delta f = f'(x)\,\Delta x + \varepsilon\, \Delta x\,$

for some infinitesimal ε, where

$\Delta f=f(x+\Delta x)-f(x).\,$

If $\scriptstyle\Delta x\not=0$ then we may write

$\frac{\Delta f}{\Delta x} = f'(x)+\varepsilon,$

which implies that $\scriptstyle\frac{\Delta f}{\Delta x}\approx f'(x)$ , or in other words that $\scriptstyle \frac{\Delta f}{\Delta x}$ is infinitely close to $\scriptstyle f'(x)\,$ .

References

H. Jerome Keisler: Elementary Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals. First edition 1976; 2nd edition 1986. This book is now out of print. The publisher has reverted the copyright to the author, who has made available the 2nd edition in .pdf format available for downloading at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html
Robinson, Abraham (1996). Non-standard analysis, Revised edition, Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-04490-2.

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