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The Sum and Product Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

If we keep an eye on the many interpretations of the operations of multiplication and addition rather than on the actual operations themselves, we shall need to make several changes of focus.

Let us see what these operations could mean without being concerned with what their interpretations could be.

The expressions “sum of”, “product of” are expressions of functionality.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1934

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