Re: Dirac-Delta function

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

Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:35:44 -0700

In article <df76407e.0410030226.5be5beeb@posting.google.com>,
 poespam-trap@yahoo.com (Randy Poe) wrote:

> Yes. You have seen how it is introduced and used in physics
> courses. But you asked how mathematicians see it, and the answer
> is that from the point of view of mathematics, it isn't a function.
> In order to work rigorously with the Dirac delta, first you have
> to define a thing called a "distribution".

Well of course a distribution is a function.

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