Trend - My guess is that you would be right. It is good to see a fellow student of math amidst all the hocus pocus. Laplace transforms are perhaps the simplest, most elegant way ever devised for solving linear differential equations. It is simply the nature of some to belittle and scoff at that which they haven't an inkling of understanding or even appreciating. Laplace would be rolling over in his grave.
Kind regards, -CAPT J
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