延伸阅读

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本站早期关于函数的文章提供了“函数是带空格的句子”这一想法,第 1 章用过,这里再次采用。

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米夏埃尔·施蒂费尔《整数算术》(1544)中的 cossic 记号 Wikimedia Commons 公有领域
丢番图《算术》第 II.8 题,巴歇版(1621) Wikimedia Commons 公有领域
韦达《分析术引论》(1591)扉页,Marcello Amadeo 摄 Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0

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