Re: Trying to define: Fractional Derivatives & Leibniz' display form for output and templates
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- Subject: [mg23022] Re: Trying to define: Fractional Derivatives & Leibniz' display form for output and templates
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:18:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Western Australia
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Mike Honeychurch wrote: > To perform fractional derivatives or integrals (same thing) on functions it > is should also be straight forward. I'm not a mathematician so in what > follows the terminology might be a tad dodgy. > > I don't have the texts in front of me but from memory the fractional > calculus is pretty much just a type of convolution integral with a 1/gamma > function out the front (I'm a chemist but you know what I mean!). See the article Gerd Baumann, "Knocking on Leibniz's Door", Mathematica in Education and Research, 8(3-4): 58-65, 1999 which is all about fractional calculus. Cheers, Paul