Re: Dirac-Delta function
From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 10/03/04
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Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 09:18:08 -0400
Adam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know what mathematicians think of the Dirac-Delta function.
> Also, what the pure mathematics way of writing and defining it would be.
A Diract delta "function" is not really a function. It is -functional-
defined over a set of infinitely differentiable functions with compact
support.
See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GeneralizedFunction.html
for the details. The Dirac thingy is called a -distribution- and is not
really a function at all.
Bob Kolker
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