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Central to the development of mathematics and its applications is the idea of a function. The idea will probably be a familiar one, especially in the guise of a graph or as something like f(x) = x 2 + x 3 + x 4 or f(x) = x3 - 1 / x + 2. However, there is a more general notion of function which it is important to understand in order to develop all the ideas we are going to encounter.
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© 1984 A. R. Camina and G. J. Janacek
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Camina, A.R., Janacek, G.J. (1984). Special Functions. In: Mathematics for Seismic Data Processing and Interpretation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7767-2_1
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