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# Some Comments on Sobolev and Schwartz

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PUB. DATE
January 2004
SOURCE
Mathematical Intelligencer;Winter2004, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p51
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ABSTRACT
Comments on the logical and historical aspects of distribution theory in mathematics. Distinction of romanticism and classicism in mathematics; Different visions of mathematics; Definition of generalized derivatives based on the transpose of the classical derivative over compactly supported smooth functions.
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13122133

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