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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
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- Subject: Re: Lebesgue integral (was: Couple of questions
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 08:19:12 -0400
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- In article <1992Sep10.173619.24343@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- >In article <18neu6INN32k@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
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- >>I have been told that the Lebesgue integral is not needed in physics--
- >>presumably Riemann integral is enough. Do you agree?
- >
- >Last I heard, the Hilbert space of a free particle was L^2(R^3), the
- >space of all functions whose absolute value squared is LEBSEGUE integrable.
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- Now all you have to do is convince the physicists that their
- Ph.D. students (at least) should study the Lebesgue theory.
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