alleryStart learning →Who first used the functional notation f(x), in 1734?
ALeonhard Euler
BAugustin Cauchy
CIsaac Newton
DGottfried Leibniz
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Correct answer: A. Leonhard Euler
Euler introduced writing a function applied to an argument as f(x).
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