Relation between Integration and Differentiation

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Differentiation is a process to calculate rate or change like, if we want to calculate
rate of function f(x), then we use differentiation and we represent differentiation
by dy/dx where y represents function f(x) in above case.

Now we discuss what is integration? Integration is a process to calculate
collection of data means if we want to calculate the collection of data in function
f(x), we use integration and we represent integration by y dx where y is a
function f(x) in above case.

Now we discuss relationship between differentiation and integration:
Integration and differentiation both are opposite to each other means if we want
to calculate collection, we use integration and if we want to calculate single
quantity, we use differentiation.

Now we take an example to understand the relationship between differentiation
and integration -
Example: Let we have a function f(x) = x and when we differentiate this function
with respect to x, then -
d/dx[f(x)] = d/dx(x) = 1
and when we integrate this result, which is provided by differentiation, then -
(d/dx[f(x)]) * dx = 1 dx = x = f(x).
So, result of integration provides the original function again. Therefore we can
say that differentiation and integration are opposite to each other and we can
write relationship between them in following manner -
(d/dx[f(x)]) * dx = d/dx ( f(x) dx) = f(x).
This is a one example which tells relationship between differentiation and
integration, we can take many more example to prove Relation between
Integration and Differentiation like, differentiation of sin x provide cos x as a result
and when we integrate cos x, it provide sin x again. Therefore we can say that
integration process is a reverse process of differentiation. This is the relation
between Integration and Differentiation.