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of this small work is to make available to students(primarily of calculus)a reasonably complete,self-contained treatmentof inverse functions,a subject which is discussed in most calculus bookswith distressing brevity.The result,frequently,is an inadequate under-standing of the concept,especially in the case of the inverse trigonometricfunctions.  \nWhen writing about functions one must choose between defining afunction as a set of ordered pairs or as a mapping.Although there arevery strong reasons for using the former approach,my own preferenceis to emphasize the dynamic rather than the static form of the definition(to quote Professor R.P.Agnew).For one thing,it is the rôle of a functionin linear algebra and topology(and elsewhere)to provide a mapping fromone space to another;and for another,in the present work this viewenables me more easily to indulge my choice to define inverse function interms of the operation of composition of functions.  \nThe following two conventions are used.(1)The end of a proof isindicated by the symbol].This is in accordance with the custom initiatedby Professor Paul R.Halmos.(2)The exercises have been classified as  \nA,B,or C according to the following scheme:The more or less routinedrill exercises are in class A,the exercises designed to further the theoreticalvii  \nPreface  \nviii  \ndevelopment of the text are in class B,and the class C exercises mostlyhave to do with the Cartesian product of two sets and functions definedon a subset of the plane.Answers or hints or outlines for proof are providedfor well over half of the exercises.  \nVarious drafts of the manuscript were typed by Mrs.Florence Valentineand by Mrs.Nancy Hall.In both cases the work was of high quality;Iam glad it is not my function to provide a ranking.William K.Smith","cbCainuTYTAzXmmK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainuTYTAzXmmK","pdf",3177860,118,"English","# Preface\n## Mathematical Approach\n## Conventions and Exercises","[{\"question\":\"What is the primary 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