functional equation
A functional equation is an equation whose unknowns are functions![]()
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are examples of suchequations. The systematic study of these didn’t begin before the 1960’s,although various mathematicians have been studying them before, includingEuler and Cauchy just to mention a few.
Functional equations appear many , for example,the gamma function

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and Riemann’s zeta function both satisfy functional equations.