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We begin with an elementary review of the language of functions and, more importantly, the classification of functions according to purely set-theoretic criteria. We assume that the reader has seen the formal definition of a function elsewhere; in any case, we shall need nothing beyond the provisional definition implicit in the following paragraph.
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Valenza, R.J. (1993). Sets and Functions. In: Linear Algebra. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0901-0_1
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