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Anonymous at Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:59:43 UTC No. 16149036
Was Dirac a pseud for making up his "delta function" instead of using functional analysis?
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:17:45 UTC No. 16149063
No, it works just fine for what it's supposed to do and it was retroactively rigorously embedded into the theory of distributions, so all good.
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:25:44 UTC No. 16149074
>>16149063
That's physicists for you. They let mathematicians slave away to prove that something that has been working for decades does actually work.