Timeline for Fundamental Examples
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| Mar 4, 2019 at 18:17 | comment | added | lcv | I thought Heaviside was playing with Dirac's function (and his own function) before Dirac. | |
| Dec 24, 2017 at 16:43 | comment | added | liuyao | Though of "central" importance in the space of distributions, the delta function is rather simple and by itself doesn't give rise to the theory at large. (It can be regarded as a measure.) I'd think that the fundamental solution to the wave equation (in all dimensions, described in the question linked above) would be a better candidate, being the prime impetus to Hadamard's partie finie and Riesz's method of analytic continuation. | |
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| Dec 6, 2009 at 8:15 | history | edited | Gil Kalai | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 26, 2009 at 12:53 | history | answered | Gil Kalai | CC BY-SA 2.5 |