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1) The document discusses directional derivatives and the gradient vector. The gradient vector represents the rate of change of a function with respect to changes in its variables. 2) The directional derivative of a function f at a point in the direction of a unit vector u is equal to the dot product of the gradient of f and u. 3) The gradient can be used to find the directions of steepest ascent and descent of a function, which is useful for optimization problems like finding minima and maxima.

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College Application Center

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