Functions and Graphs more important than the historical

more important than the historical and classificatory concerns of the book are the analyses of characters in semantic terms

This book is equally essential as a course text

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Functions and Graphs more important than the historicalThe second in a series of systematic studies by a celebrated mathematician I. M. Gelfand and colleagues, this volume presents students with a well illustrated sequence of problems and exercises designed to illuminate the properties of functions and graphs. Since readers do not have the benefit of a blackboard on which a teacher constructs a graph, the authors abandoned the customary use of diagrams in which only the final form of the graph appears;