Principles of Fourier analysis (Q2724079)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the mathematical theory of Fourier analysis including the classical theory of Fourier transforms, the generalized theory of Fourier transforms and the theory of discrete Fourier transforms; at the same time, it precises how each of the theories is related to the others. As a novelty, the author proves in this book that the classical and discrete theories are special cases of the generalized theory. The author's development is completely different from the usual presentations. His approach of the classical Fourier transform results is very interesting leading naturally to a starting point for the generalized theory. Moreover, the author introduces a new generalized theory, more general than the usually presented, based on the Gaussian test function.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe material of the book is organized in five chapters. The chapter one contains preliminaries: 1. The starting point; 2. Basic terminology, notation and conventions; 3. Basic analysis I: continuity and smoothness; 4. Basic analysis II: Integration and infinite series; 5. Symmetry and periodicity; 6. Elementary complex analysis; 7. Functions of several variables. The second chapter is devoted to presentation of Fourier series. It contains: 8. Heuristic derivation of the Fourier series formulas; 9. The trigonometric Fourier series; 10. Fourier series over finite intervals (sine and cosine series); 11. Inner products, norms and orthogonality; 12. The complex exponential Fourier series; 13. Convergence and Fourier's conjecture; 14. Convergence and Fourier's conjecture: the proofs; 15. Derivatives and integrals of Fourier series; 16. Applications. The third chapter covers the problem of classical Fourier transforms: 17. Heuristic derivation of the classical Fourier transform; 18. Integrals on infinite intervals; 19. The Fourier integral transforms; 20. Classical Fourier transforms and classically transformable functions; 21. Some elementary identities: translation, scaling and conjugation; 22. Differentiation and Fourier transforms; 23. Gaussians and other very rapidly decreasing functions; 24. Convolution and transforms of products; 25. Correlation, square--integrable functions, and the fundamental identity of Fourier analysis; 26. Identity sequences; 27. Generalizing the classical theory: a naive approach; 28. Fourier analysis in the analysis of systems; 29. Gaussians as test functions and proofs of some important theorems, the fourth chapter contains generalized functions and Fourier transforms: 30. A starting point for the generalized theory; 31. Gaussian test functions; 32. Generalized functions; 33. Sequences and series of generalized functions; 34. Basic transforms of generalized Fourier analysis; 35. Generalized products, convolutions and definite integrals; 36. Periodic functions and regular arrays; 37. General solutions to simple equations and the pole functions, and the last chapter the discrete Fourier transforms: 38. Periodic, regular arrays; 39. Sampling and the discrete Fourier transform.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book is written in such a way that may be successfully used, both by beginning students who have seen little or non on Fourier analysis and by the more advanced students; at the same time, parts of it can be used by professionals who are already experts in Fourier analysis (see the part IV concerning generalized functions and Fourier transforms).