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Fourier analysis

n.

The branch of mathematics concerned with the approximation of periodic functions by the Fourier series and with generalizations of such approximations to a wider class of functions.

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Fourier analysis [ˈfʊərɪˌeɪ]

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(Mathematics) the analysis of a periodic function into its simple sinusoidal or harmonic components, whose sum forms a Fourier series

[named after Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), French mathematician, Egyptologist, and administrator]

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Fourier analysis

The branch of mathematics concerned with the approximation of periodic functions by the Fourier series and with generalizations of such approximations to a wider class of functions.

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Fourier analysis - analysis of a periodic function into a sum of simple sinusoidal components harmonic analysis analysis - a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation