Over at Quanta Magazine [Shalma Wegsman] asks What Is the Fourier Transform? [Shalma] begins by telling you a little about Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician with an interest in heat propagation ...

Using concepts students are already familiar with — like how bottles vibrate — can serve as a helpful anchor for more complex topics.

The Fourier transform underpins so much of our technological lives, in most cases probably without our realising it. The ability to mathematically split a waveform into its frequency components and ...

APPM 5350 Methods in Applied Mathematics: Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems Restricted to graduate students. Same as APPM 4350. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

AT the thirty-second session of the Indian Science Congress, held at Nagpur in 1945, Dr. B. N. Prasad, president of the Section of Mathematics and Statistics, delivered an address on the summability ...

In less than 100 seconds, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb of the University of Cambridge in the UK provides a basic definition of a Fourier transform. She explains how this mathematical tool was introduced ...