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In this chapter I shall first sketch briefly the history of functional analysis in the first half of the twentieth century. Secondly, I shall point out more specifically certain theorems and theories in functional analysis and its applications which anticipated the theory of distributions.
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Lützen, J. (1982). Distributions in the Development of Functional Analysis. In: The Prehistory of the Theory of Distributions. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol 7. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9472-3_2
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