Laplace transform can be thought of as the continuous analogue of a power series

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3189401/laplace-transform-continuous-analogue-of-power-series

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/493301/discrete-to-continuous-representations-of-functions-via-laplace-transforms

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/105800/discrete-laplace-transform

See https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/114535104?ivk_sa=1024320u