Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...

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Fourier analysis provides a powerful framework for decomposing functions into sums or integrals of sinusoidal components, thereby enabling the study of frequency content in signals. In tandem, ...

The representation of a PERIODIC sound or WAVEFORM as a sum of Fourier components (i.e. pure SINUSOIDAL WAVEs). According to the FOURIER THEOREM, periodic sound may be shown to consist of SINE WAVEs ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The methods of cyclic reduction and Fourier analysis are reviewed together with the FACR algorithm which combines the two methods. It is shown ...

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Introduction and overview of Fourier descriptors / Pete E. Lestrel -- Growth and form revisited / Dwight W. Read -- Methodological issues in the description of forms / Paul O'Higgins -- Phase angles, ...