Ever since the exposition of Schwartz on theory of distributions, the acceptance of Fourier methods for functions hitherto not amenable to rigorous Fourier analysis (e.g., impulse functions) has become an established fact. The introduction of the concepts of functions of ‘slow growth’ and ‘rapid decay’ provides a reinterpretation of the classical Fourier analysis.
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