Timeline for What is your favorite "strange" function?
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| Mar 10, 2011 at 10:02 | comment | added | Koundinya Vajjha | Well when Ngô Bâo Châu got the Fields medal, people said "Now they're giving Fields Medals for proving lemmas"... | |
| Aug 21, 2010 at 20:02 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | We used to say that Dirac's delta is the characteristic function of physicists: if you're a physicist, it's a function, otherwise, it isn't. | |
| Apr 23, 2010 at 6:18 | comment | added | Jon | I heard that after Schwartz got the Fields medal someone quipped "Now they're giving the Fields medal for integration by parts." | |
| Apr 22, 2010 at 22:08 | comment | added | Tom Ellis | Haha, well everything is a function not on the space you might think. | |
| Apr 22, 2010 at 15:42 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Well, it is a function, just not on the space you might think... | |
| Apr 22, 2010 at 15:02 | comment | added | vonjd | with the "flesh" I esp. meant the answer (not so much the comment) | |
| Apr 22, 2010 at 14:58 | comment | added | vonjd | good idea - could you perhaps put more flesh on it!?! Thank you! | |
| Apr 22, 2010 at 14:57 | comment | added | J.C. Ottem | Well, technically the Dirac delta function is a distribution, and not a function. | |
| Apr 22, 2010 at 14:52 | history | answered | Sunni | CC BY-SA 2.5 |