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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: IOPscience - Elementary Fourier Optics for Science and Engineering Students. Aug 23, 2025
Add new Web site: OpenStax - Precalculus 2e - Introduction to Functions. Apr 05, 2025
Add new Web site: The University of Adelaide - Numbers and Functions (PDF). Jan 15, 2025
Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Functions and Operators. Dec 18, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Houston - Department of Mathematics - The Function Concept (PDF). Dec 16, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - The History of the Concept of Function and Some Educational Implications. Oct 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Mathematical Sciences - Functions. Sep 09, 2024
Add new Web site: Toronto Metropolitan University Pressbooks - Mathematics for Public and Occupational Health Professionals - Introduction to Functions. Jun 19, 2024
Add new Web site: University of California, Davis - Department of Mathematics - Sets and Functions. Jan 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Columbia University - Variables, Functions and Equations. Dec 26, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - What is a function? Sep 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Whitman College - Mathematics - Functions. May 15, 2023
Article revised and updated. Sep 03, 2021
Removed video. Jun 04, 2021
Media added. Jun 02, 2021
Corrected display issue. Mar 13, 2019
Add new Web site: Mathematics LibreTexts - Functions. Feb 25, 2019
Add new Web site: A Maths Dictionary for Kids - Function. Jun 20, 2017
Add new Web site: Maths is Fun - What is a Function? Feb 16, 2014
Add new Web site: Wolfram MathWorld - Function. Feb 16, 2014
Article revised and updated. Sep 28, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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