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MR. C. N. HINSHELWOOD suggests in NATURE of Oct. 18, p. 604, that the English equivalents of eigenfunktion and eigenwert should be proper function and proper value. Having shown how to develop the functions used by Schrödinger (see, for example, my paper in the Phil. Mag., vol. 6, July 1928), may I again suggest from the nature of the Heaviside operator method disclosed that the terms to employ are parametrals and parametral functions.
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PRESS, A. English Equivalents of Eigenfunktion and Eigenwert. Nature 126, 883 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126883d0
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