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On the Operational Solution of Linear Finite Difference Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. M. Milne-Thomson
Affiliation:
Corpus Christi College

Extract

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.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1931

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References

* 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.