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formulation of dynamics that focussed on functions, and functions of functions. His notation reflects this, | formulation of dynamics that focussed on functions, and functions of functions. His notation reflects this, | ||
it explicitly references functions and the mapping of functions to new functions, rather than the ratios or | it explicitly references functions and the mapping of functions to new functions, rather than the ratios or | ||
- | sums of the changing values of these. It follows from the ideas of functions developed soon after calculus and the notation developed for functions (which had an explicit differential operator symbol). An analogy here could be the difference between procedural and functional computer programming paradigms. | + | sums of the changing values of these. It follows from the ideas developed soon after calculus and the notation developed for functions (which had an explicit differential operator symbol). An analogy here could be the difference between procedural and functional computer programming paradigms. |
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