Re: Dirac-Delta function

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


Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:36:20 -0700

In article <2sacgoF1j6khiU1@uni-berlin.de>,
 "robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:

> > 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.

A functional is a function.



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