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In the two previous chapters we dealt with curves and the polynomials defining them or the mechanisms generating them. Those curves often represented incarnations of problems involving polynomial equations, with one or more variables.
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Incidentally, the term “function” was introduced in this context by Leibniz.
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Popescu-Pampu, P. (2016). When Integrals Hide Curves. In: What is the Genus?. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42312-8_4
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