Timeline for What are the Reasons for the Ambiguous Meaning of "Distribution" in Mathematics
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| Feb 3, 2014 at 15:34 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | As I see it, the presence in mathematics of general terms with various meanings, such as "distribution" of "field", and adjectives like "normal" and "regular", is generally due to the fact that the mathematical language seeks for simplicity. Also note that at the time when these terms were introduced, different fields used to be more separated, and there were no danger of confusion. | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 12:23 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | @WillieWong, I didn't miss it - I didn't know of it; thanks for mentioning it, I will look it up. | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 12:22 | vote | accept | Manfred Weis | ||
| Feb 3, 2014 at 11:45 | comment | added | Willie Wong | Besides probability-distributions and schwartz-distributions, you've missed tangent-distributions in your enumeration. | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 11:45 | answer | added | abx | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 11:22 | history | asked | Manfred Weis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |