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An essay towards the calculus of functions

Author(s) -

Charles Babbage

Publication year - 1833

Publication title -

abstracts of the papers printed in the philosophical transactions of the royal society of london

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-9142

pISSN - 0365-5695

DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1815.0406

Subject(s) - exponent , multiplication (music) , raising (metalworking) , term (time) , calculus (dental) , function (biology) , mathematics , power (physics) , computer science , algebra over a field , pure mathematics , combinatorics , physics , philosophy , medicine , dentistry , linguistics , geometry , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology

In the same manner as an exponent expresses one operation on quantity, namely, the multiplication of it by itself a certain number of times, or raising it to the power expressed by that exponent, so the term Function, which has been introduced into modern analysis, is intended to express generally the results of all the various operations that can be performed upon quantity.

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