The New Encyclopædia Britannica: L-ZEncyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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... formal structure , the objects related , and its genealogy . But , apart from that formal and factual analy- sis , there is nothing to be said . Words are labels that we attach to things , but the attempt to justify that practice merely ...
... formal structure , the objects related , and its genealogy . But , apart from that formal and factual analy- sis , there is nothing to be said . Words are labels that we attach to things , but the attempt to justify that practice merely ...
Page 289
... formal power series f ( see 288 ) is called positive if , and only if , a > 0 , while the sum and product of two such series are defined by the usual formal rules ( see 289 ) . It is then straightforward to show that the above ...
... formal power series f ( see 288 ) is called positive if , and only if , a > 0 , while the sum and product of two such series are defined by the usual formal rules ( see 289 ) . It is then straightforward to show that the above ...
Page 516
... formal extensions of calculus developed on ad hoc lines for specific application , notably by Heaviside and the British physicist P.A.M. Dirac . Until Schwartz's development of the theory of distributions , most of these schemes of formal ...
... formal extensions of calculus developed on ad hoc lines for specific application , notably by Heaviside and the British physicist P.A.M. Dirac . Until Schwartz's development of the theory of distributions , most of these schemes of formal ...
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