Looking for an adequate explication of the concept of a biological function, several authors have proposed to link function to design. Unfortunately, known explications of biological design in turn ...

A. P. Youschkevitch, The Concept of Function up to the Middle of the 19th Century, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 1 (27.IX.1976), pp. 37-85 ...

Closely related to the mathematical higher-order function concept is the first-class function, which is a functional programming function that takes other functional programming functions as ...