Derivatives of a matrix using Sympy

Question

I am learning Sympy to know the Symbolic operations in Python. I want to find out the derivative of a matrix.

How could I derivate the matrix in respect to b.

import sympy as sp
B = sp.Matrix([[(a*c),(b**2)],[(b*d),(d*a)]])
B

This can not help me to give my answer.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '21 at 23:39

Assuming you want the usual matrix-by-scalar derivative and that you're using sympy 1.7, then the following should work:

import sympy as sp
a, b, c, d = sp.symbols("a b c d")
B = sp.Matrix([[(a*c),(b**2)],[(b*d),(d*a)]])
B.diff(b)

Returns:

Matrix([
[0, 2*b],
[d,   0]])

Which seems right to me. More here.

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