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Chapter 2: Q. 107 (page 71)

Investigate when, historically, the use of the function notation y=f(x)first appeared.

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The notation ofy=f(x)first appeared in1707-1783.

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In the given question we have to investigate when, historically, the use of the function notation y=f(x)first appeared.

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Step 2. The term "function" was introduced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) almost fifty years after the publication of Geometry 

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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