For novices, functions are one of the most intimidating features of OpenOffice.org's Calc. Newcomers quickly learn that functions are a main feature of spreadsheets, but there are almost four hundred, ...

Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 61, No. 5 (September 2007), pp. 457-518 (62 pages) In his writings about hypergeometric functions Gauss succeeded in moving beyond the restricted domain of ...