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)
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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