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This paper surveys the theory of functional identities and its applications. No prior knowledge of the theory is required to follow the paper.
This survey is articulated around two major axis. The first one concerns the Kaplansky problem; the history of the problem and several results are presented. The second one concerns some new preserver problems (concerning the generalized inverse, Fredholm or semi-Fredholm operators). The common point of these results is that they are interesting only in the infinite dimensional situation. Several open questions are mentioned over all the paper.