Fourier analysis

Meaning

Noun

A field of study concerned with the representation or approximation of general functions, such as arbitrary waveforms, by sums of trigonometric functions.

Origin

After French mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830), a pioneer of the field.

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