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Are adjoint operators historically related to integrating factors?
Yes, Birkhoff and Rota make an unnecessarily cryptic allusion to Lagrange's memoir Solution de différents problèmes de calcul intégral (1766), where he multiplies a linear equation by a factor and ...
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