WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
Print ISSN: 1109-2769, E-ISSN: 2224-2880
Volume 19, 2020
The Pioneers of the Mittag-Leffler Functions in Dielectrical and Mechanical Relaxation Processes
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Abstract: We start with a short survey of the basic properties of the Mittag-Leffler functions Then we focus on the key role of these functions to explain the after-effects and relaxation phenomena occurring in dielectrics and in viscoelastic bodies. For this purpose we recall the main aspects that were formerly discussed by two pioneers in the years 1930’s-1940’s whom we have identified with Harold T. Davis and Bernhard Gross .