Function: Part I

DOI10.2307/2589528MaRDI QIDQ4222436zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikolai Luzin

Publication date 23 February 1999

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2589528

zbMATH Keywords

function concepts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of real functions (26-03)

Review text

Translation of an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia of 1934, describing the evolution of function concepts from Johann Bernoulli until Fourier, taking vibrating physical systems and trigonometrical series as guiding problems. The famous controversies are narrated. No references.

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