Re: Dirac-Delta function

From: The World Wide Wade (waderameyxiii_at_comcast.remove13.net)
Date: 10/03/04


Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 21:28:48 -0700

In article <sZydnV7TO_0X_8LcRVn-jg@rogers.com>, "Adam" <addam@rogers.com>
wrote:

> > It is a "generalized function" or a "distribution". Mathematicians
> > cover these in a course known as "Functional Analysis". Maybe you
> > will take that course one day.
> >
> I'm not sure what you mean. It has been expressed multiple ways.

In mathematics it is basically expressed one way: As a linear functional on
a space of "test functions".