Yurii Shirokov, Algebra of one-dimensional generalized functions (1979)
“ We have introduced differentiation on the algebra . We emphasize that the rule for differentiating a product can be applied only to renormalized multiplication. Perhaps, it is the only possible way to differenticate elements of the algebra of generalized functions. Any attempts to differentiate the right-hand sides of (27) and (33) as we differentiate a products or regular funcitons may lead to expressions, for which we have no definitions.The regularization of the differentiation rules and anti-commuting signum and delta is the price we pay to get the associative algebra. ”
