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Functional calculus

In mathematics, a functional calculus is a theory allowing one to apply mathematical functions to mathematical operators. It is now a branch (more accurately, several related areas) of the field of functional analysis, connected with spectral theory. Historically, the term was synonymous with the calculus of variations; the latter term remains in…

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