The Prehistory of the Theory of Distributions Ltzen J.
The Prehistory of the Theory of Distributions Ltzen J. I first learned the theory of distributions from Professor Ebbe Thue Poulsen in an undergraduate course at Aarhus University. Treves, used in…
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The Prehistory of the Theory of Distributions Ltzen J.
I first learned the theory of distributions from Professor Ebbe Thue Poulsen in an undergraduate course at Aarhus University. Treves, used in the course, opened my eyes to the beauty and abstract simplicity of the theory. Both his lectures and the textbook, Topological Vector Spaces, Distributions and Kernels by F.
In my continued studies this question was gradually answered, but my growing interest in the history of mathematics caused me to alter my question to other questions such as: For what purpose, if any, was the theory of distributions originally created? However my incomplete study of many branches of classical analysis left me with the question: Why is the theory of distributions important? Who invented distributions and when?
I quickly found answers to the last two questions: distributions were invented by S. Sobolev and L. Schwartz around 1936 and 1950, respectively. Knowing