Since Laplace learned that trick, every text and professor has copied it! My favourite is where they come to some obscure point that doesn't seem to fit, and they say
"The proof of this is left as an excercise to the class .. (reader etc..)" Or they inject some unfathomable constant or expression and say, "substitute this fractional binomial for the extraneous parameter, divide by 112.3 and in various steps suggested from Poisson's rule in 1.32, the result will be X=1" One of my professors used to say things in a dead shout, like "Calculus of Variations is DEAD EASY, I don't know why they don't present it in grade school."
All I know about Laplace transforms is that it will transform you into a blithering idiot in 2 chapters.
If you look up all the Mathematicians born in France, Russia England, USA, or even Iraq, the list is long and impressive. Look up the list of mathematicians born in Canada and you see six names. That's right, six. I think one of them learned how to count. Now considering the list of swindlers, pornographers, alcoholics and pickpockets born in Canada, that is where we leave the rest of the world behind.
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