Fourier analysis
Meanings
noun
- A field of study concerned with the representation or approximation of general functions, such as arbitrary waveforms, by sums of trigonometric functions.
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Etymology
After French mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830), a pioneer of the field.
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