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    This document discusses the history of function notation. It describes how: Rene Descartes in the 17th century developed the concept of a function to describe mathematical relationships and represented variables as points on a number line. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz introduced the term "function" and the notation dy/dx to represent functions. He defined a function as a quantity varying along a curve that could be represented by y = f(x). Leonhard Euler further formalized the idea of a function by introducing the notation y = f(x).

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    HISTORY OF FUNCTION

    NOTATION

    BY:MUHAMMAD DANISH HAFIY BIN NORKHAIRI (405)


    MOHAMAD ABDULLAH EL AMEEN (405)
    MUHAMMAD DANISH AQIL (405)
    TIMELINE OF FUNCITION NOTATION

    • Rene Descartes
    • The idea of a function was developed in the
    seventeenth century. During this time, Rene
    Descartes (1596-1650), in his book Geometry
    (1637), used the concept to describe many
    mathematical relationships.
    • Descartes showed that algebraic variables (like x and y)
    could be represented as points along a number line. Any
    two variables, therefore, could be defined in relationship
    to one another using a two-dimensional plot.

    • Descartes make the solution of  f(x) = ax2 + bx + c,where


    a, b, and c are numbers with a not equal to zero

    • Also known as “FATHER OF PHILOSOPY” because


    attempted to demonstrate the existence of God and
    the distinction between the human soul and the
    body that produce the idea of a functions
    • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    • The term "function" was introduced by


    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) almost
    fifty years after the publication of Geometry.

    • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a prominent


    German polymath and one of the most
    important logicians, mathematicians and
    natural philosophers of the Enlightenment
    • Introduced the word function into mathematics by symbolize
    it with dy/dx.

    • If y and x are two variables so related that whenever a


    numerical value is assigned to x there is determined a
    numerical value of y, then y is called a (one-valued, or
    uniform) function of x.

    • This can be symbolized by writing y = f(x).

    • Used the word “function” to mean any quantity varying from point
    to point of a curve in manuscript.

    • Also known as “THE FATHER OF CALCULUS”


    • The idea of a function was further formalized
    by Leonhard Euler (pronounced "oiler" 1707-
    1783) who introduced the notation for a
    function, y = f(x).

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