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harmonic analysis
(redirected from Fourier theory)

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harmonic analysis [här′man·ik ə′nal·ə·səs]
(mathematics)
A study of functions by attempting to represent them as infinite series or integrals which involve functions from some particular well-understood family; it subsumes studying a function via its Fourier series.
(physics)
Any method of identifying and evaluating the harmonics that make up a complex waveform of sound pressure, voltage, current, or some other varying quantity.


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Another essential development in the science of x-ray crystallography was the invention by the French mathematician Fourier of what has come to be known as modern harmonic analysis, or Fourier theory.
 
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