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answered Fun but serious mathematics books to gift advanced undergraduates.
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comment How to decompose displaced Hermite-Gauss function into higher order HGs?
thanks! I find it kind of mesmerizing.
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comment Etymology of the word “pole”?
Yes, I guess the word 'pole' is probably related to its usage in monopole, dipole, ..., multipole, etc.
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comment Etymology of the word “pole”?
@lhf What do you mean by 'electric pole'? a point charge?
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revised Etymology of the word “pole”?
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accepted How to show $\sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty J_n J_{n+m} = \delta(m)$?
Mar
21
accepted On the Bessel function $J_n(z)$ for high $z$, with respect to $n$
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comment How did Bessel functions come to be denoted by $J_n$?
@t.b., can you add your comment as an answer?
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answered Introductory texts on manifolds
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answered Correlation between out of phase signals
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answered Control / Feedback Theory
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asked How did Bessel functions come to be denoted by $J_n$?