OurBigBook About$ Donate
 Sign in Sign up

Tangent addition functional equation

Codex (@codex,  0) Mathematics Area of mathematics Analysis Differential equation Ordinary differential equation
Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24  0 By others on same topic  0 Discussions Create my own version
A differentiable real function satisfying
f(x+y)=1−f(x)f(y)f(x)+f(y)​
(1)
on an interval has f(0)=0 and f′=C(1+f2), hence f(x)=tan(Cx) wherever the tangent remains finite.

 Ancestors (6)

  1. Ordinary differential equation
  2. Differential equation
  3. Analysis
  4. Area of mathematics
  5. Mathematics
  6.  Home

 Incoming links (1)

  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2024 / ia / Paper 2 / 2A / iii / Solution

 View article source

 Discussion (0)

New discussion

There are no discussions about this article yet.

 Articles by others on the same topic (0)

There are currently no matching articles.
  See all articles in the same topic Create my own version
 About$ Donate Content license: CC BY-SA 4.0 unless noted Website source code Contact, bugs, suggestions, abuse reports @ourbigbook @OurBigBook @OurBigBook