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Functional equations have much in common with the axiomatic method: they define their objects (functions) implicitly by their properties (equations) rather than by direct definitions (explicit formulae).
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Aczél, J. (1984). On history, applications and theory of functional equations. In: Functional Equations: History, Applications and Theory. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6320-7_1
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