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The basic idea for generalizing the notion of function in the context of distributions is to regard a function as an operator T f (called a functional) acting by integration on functions themselves:
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Gasquet, C., Witomski, P. (1999). What Is a Distribution?. In: Fourier Analysis and Applications. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 30. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1598-1_27
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