Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
The application of the operational method of Oliver Heaviside to the solution of linear differential equations has been fully described in a recent Cambridge Tract by Dr H. Jeffreys.
* Operational Methods in Mathematical Physics (1927).
* See, for instance, Boole, G., Calculus of Finite Differences (1872), Chap. II.Google Scholar
* Jeffreys, H., Operational Methods, 1·5Google Scholar.
* Burnside, W., Theory of Probability (1928), Chap. II.Google Scholar
† This problem is taken from an examination paper set by Professor W. Burnside at the Royal Naval College.