Abstract
The conception of a functional originates in V.Volterra’s works as “functions of line”. The term “functional”, introduced by J.Hadamard, at present is understood as a mapping V of an arbitrary set X into the set of real R (or complex C) numbers.
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Kim, A.V. (1999). Structure of Functionals. In: Functional Differential Equations. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 479. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1630-7_1
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