What is a function?

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Authors Ruediger Thiele

Publication date 12 February 2009

zbMATH Keywords

Cartesian coordinatesDescartesEulerisoperimetric problemJohann BernoulliLeibnizvibrating string problemWeierstrass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of real functions (26-03)

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