diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 725e839e75..6adbc67a81 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -255,5 +255,6 @@ Brooks Smith <42363318+smith120bh@users.noreply.github.com>
 Jmar L. Pineda <63294460+Galm007@users.noreply.github.com>
 gauravchawhan <117282267+gauravchawhan@users.noreply.github.com>
 Neeraj Kumawat <42885320+nkumawat34@users.noreply.github.com>
+Emmanuel Ferdman <emmanuelferdman@gmail.com>
 
 # Generated by tools/update-authors.js
diff --git a/src/utils/object.js b/src/utils/object.js
index ffb374022b..fb62f6711d 100644
--- a/src/utils/object.js
+++ b/src/utils/object.js
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ export function clone (x) {
     return mapObject(x, clone)
   }
 
+  if (type === 'function') {
+    // we assume that the function is immutable
+    return x
+  }
+
   throw new TypeError(`Cannot clone: unknown type of value (value: ${x})`)
 }
 
diff --git a/test/unit-tests/function/utils/clone.test.js b/test/unit-tests/function/utils/clone.test.js
index 6b82d1ec54..baead46bb1 100644
--- a/test/unit-tests/function/utils/clone.test.js
+++ b/test/unit-tests/function/utils/clone.test.js
@@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ describe('clone', function () {
     assert.strictEqual(b.valueOf()[2].re, 2)
   })
 
+  it('should clone a function', function () {
+    const f = () => 42
+    const a = math.matrix([f])
+    const b = math.clone(a)
+    assert.strictEqual(b.get([0]), f)
+  })
+
   it('should LaTeX clone', function () {
     const expression = math.parse('clone(1)')
     assert.strictEqual(expression.toTex(), '\\mathrm{clone}\\left(1\\right)')
diff --git a/test/unit-tests/utils/object.test.js b/test/unit-tests/utils/object.test.js
index 103200ce6d..5f84ae8e3b 100644
--- a/test/unit-tests/utils/object.test.js
+++ b/test/unit-tests/utils/object.test.js
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ describe('object', function () {
 
     it('should throw an error in case of an unsupported type', function () {
       assert.throws(function () { clone(/a regexp/) }, /Cannot clone: unknown type of value/)
-      assert.throws(function () { clone(() => 42) }, /Cannot clone: unknown type of value/)
     })
   })