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cubic equation Graphs of some trigonometric functions point in the complex plane graph of a function Figure 1: Graph of values of the function y = f(x) = 2 - x + x2 for x = 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4.
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cubic equation
Graphs of some trigonometric functions
point in the complex plane
graph of a function
Figure 1: Graph of values of the function y = f(x) = 2 - x + x2 for x = 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4.
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Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Karl Weierstrass, engraving after a photograph by Franz Kullrich.
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
Émile Borel
French mathematician
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
British mathematician
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician

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