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 ====== Distributions ====== ====== Distributions ======
  
-<tabbox Why is it interesting?> ​ 
  
 <tabbox Layman?> ​ <tabbox Layman?> ​
  
-<note tip> +A distribution is generalized function
-Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during ​coffee break or at a cocktail party. +
-</​note>​+
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 <tabbox Student> ​ <tabbox Student> ​
  
-  * https://​physics.stackexchange.com/​questions/​210552/​what-really-is-a-dirac-delta-function/​210557#​210557 
    
 <tabbox Researcher> ​ <tabbox Researcher> ​
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   * [[http://​phys.lsu.edu/​graceland/​faculty/​oconnell/​PDFfiles.sav/​137.%20Distribution%20Functions%20in%20Physics%3B%20Fundamentals.pdf|DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS IN PHYSICS: FUNDAMENTALS]] by M. HILLERY et. al.    * [[http://​phys.lsu.edu/​graceland/​faculty/​oconnell/​PDFfiles.sav/​137.%20Distribution%20Functions%20in%20Physics%3B%20Fundamentals.pdf|DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS IN PHYSICS: FUNDAMENTALS]] by M. HILLERY et. al. 
  
 +<tabbox Why is it interesting?> ​
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 +Distributions are the correct mathematical tools to describe fields in [[theories:​quantum_field_theory:​canonical|quantum field theory]]. ​
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 +<tabbox FAQ>
 --> Does the notion "Dirac Delta Function"​ make any sense? # --> Does the notion "Dirac Delta Function"​ make any sense? #
  
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-<​tabbox ​Examples+
  
---> Example1#+Most people associate the origin of the delta function with the great physicist Paul Dirac, but in fact, it was introduced into mathematics 100 years earlier by Fourier and Cauchy. See  [[http://​homepages.warwick.ac.uk/​staff/​David.Tall/​pdfs/​dot2010x-katz-cauchydirac.pdf|WHO INVENTED DIRAC’S DELTA FUNCTION?]] MIKHAIL G. KATZ AND DAVID TALL
  
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-<tabbox History> ​ 
  
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