Re: Euler's Gamma and Beta Functions
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- Subject: [mg41392] Re: Euler's Gamma and Beta Functions
- From: "Dr. Wolfgang Hintze" <weh at snafu.de>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 05:51:15 -0400 (EDT)
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Raz, the Euler Beta function appeared in elementary particle physics as a model for the scattering amplitude in the so called "dual resonance model". Introduced by Veneziano in the 1970th in order to fit experimeltal data it soon turned out that the basic physics behind this model is the string (instead of the zero-dimensional mass point). I recommend to look for "string theory, history" on the internet. Hope this helps. Regards, Wolfgang RazroRog wrote: > Hello friends, > > Please forgive me - I know I will be asking questions that to you will > appear stupid. I do applogize for that. I'm working through Mr. Wolfram's > book - page by page. I love this Mathematica program and the book is very > well designed. I am just trying to learn. > > I need to know about Euler's Gamma and Beta functions. I understand the > attempt to generalize the factorial and how the Beta function arose but > could you show me a few examples from physics and/or engineering how these > functions are useful? I need to get a feel for them. > > Thank you very much, > > Raz > > > >