Abstract
Bent functions were invented and named in 1966 by Oscar Rothaus (1927–2003) in research not published until May 1976. So the final version was published ten years later in [67] in which Rothaus presented the basic properties and a large general family of bent functions. Dillon considers bent functions as wonderful creatures. Between 1960 and 1976, two documents on bent functions were written by J. Dillon, precisely in 1972 and 1974, but they had a limited distribution; these are the first papers he wrote on this subject [32] (where he mentions however an earlier paper, [26]) and the chapter he devoted to them in his nice PhD thesis [31]. A paper also appeared in 1975, based on Dillon’s thesis [33]. In this preliminary period, several people (including the authors of [26]) mentioned by Dillon in [32] were interested in bent functions. In [67], two names are also cited by Rothaus: Lloyd Welch, the well-known specialist of codes and sequences, and Gerry Mitchell who contributed to a computer investigation.
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