A Brief History of the Function Concept

Israel Kleiner ()
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Israel Kleiner: York University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Chapter Chapter 5 in Excursions in the History of Mathematics, 2012, pp 103-124 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The evolution of the concept of function goes back 4000 years; 3,700 of these consist of anticipations. The idea evolved for close to 300 years in intimate connection with problems in calculus and analysis. In fact, a one-sentence definition of analysis as the study of properties of various classes of functions would not be far off the mark. Moreover, the concept of function is one of the distinguishing features of “modern” as against “classical” mathematics.

Keywords: Fourier Series; Eighteenth Century; Function Concept; Category Theory; Initial Shape (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-8268-2_5

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