c’est-à-dire que, lorsqu’on différence successivement une fonction de plusieurs variables, par rapport à deux d’entre elles, on parvient toujours au même résultat final, quel que soit l’ordre suivant lequel on fait succéder les différentiations l’une à l’autre.
Supposons encore que, dans la fonction
se change en
étant également une constante quelconque, alors, en vertu de la formule (45),
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