Calculus & the Chain Rule — Roadmap Step & Resources
Derivatives, partial derivatives and the chain rule that backpropagation is built on
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 2 days
- Roadmap: Deep Learning & Neural Networks
Before this step
Interview questions
- Why is the chain rule the mathematical foundation of backpropagation?
Study resources
- Essence of Calculus (Video) — 3Blue1Brown's legendary, intuition-first series on derivatives and the chain rule.
- Backpropagation calculus | Deep learning, chapter 4 (Video) — 3Blue1Brown's own follow-up applying the chain rule directly to backpropagation.
Part of
- Mathematics for Deep Learning — section
- Deep Learning & Neural Networks roadmap — the full learning path