Re: Today's jaw dropper

[twayburn@juno.com (Thomas L Wayburn)]

On Thu, 9 Oct 97 14:31:33 CDT PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU writes:
> > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:35:13 -0700
> > From: Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>
> >
> > Even after Schwartz's work one of my references says
> > the Dirac delta function was *not* considered a respectable
> > function by mathematicians, but they admitted the use of a symbol
> > with all the same properties. Physicists persist in this "error"
> > with considerable profit, however.
Statement 1:  If Dirac's delta fn is a function, then heat is a
substance.
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The  generalized fns are in the dual space of L2 .  I guess that makes
them functions and Statement 1 undecided.   I am too tired to check. 
Please check for me.   

Regards / Tom
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>   I find [in mathematics] a wonderful beauty. This is no science,
>   this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving
>   chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or
>   multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.
>                                      ---Turjan of Miir (Jack Vance)