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Functions crop up regularly in everyday life (for instance: each student of the Polytechnic of Turin has a unique identification number), in physics (to each point of a region in space occupied by a fluid we may associate the velocity of the particle passing through that point at a given moment), in economy (each working day at Milan’s stock exchange is tagged with the Mibtel index), and so on.
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(2008). Functions. In: Mathematical Analysis I. Universitext. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0876-2_2
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