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Dirac delta
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English
Etymology
en English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac 1902 1984 =; the notation was chosen because the symbol behaves analogously to the Kronecker delta.
Noun
en mathematics A function-like symbol denoted as δ, with the property , informally understood as a function with an infinite value at 0 and zero elsewhere, and formally as a distribution or a measure. en Functions