Re:What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
by Smaug123 on Monday August 15, 2016 @03:37AM
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The Dirac delta function is not a function but a distribution. This is just the product of sloppy notation by the physicists.
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Re:What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
by Klockan3 on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:55AM
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No, it is just that physicists means something different than mathematicians when they use the word "function". Just assume that they always are distributions that are evaluated with dirac deltas and everything makes sense.