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== History == The ideas surrounding algebraic functions go back at least as far as [[RenΓ© Descartes]]. The first discussion of algebraic functions appears to have been in [[Edward Waring]]'s 1794 ''An Essay on the Principles of Human Knowledge'' in which he writes: :let a quantity denoting the ordinate, be an algebraic function of the abscissa ''x'', by the common methods of division and extraction of roots, reduce it into an infinite series ascending or descending according to the dimensions of ''x'', and then find the integral of each of the resulting terms.
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