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Function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

E. B. C. Thornton
E. B. C. Thornton*
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5 Marchmont Terrace, Glasgow W.2
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Extract

There seems to be doubt about the meaning of the word “function.” Roughly speaking applied mathematicians tend to use it in its old meaning as a synonym for “dependent variable”, while some pure mathematicians use it to mean a mapping in which no element of the domain can have more than one image.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 54 , Issue 387 , February 1970 , pp. 28 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1970

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