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The Fourier Transform & Its Applications | 
 enlarge | Author: Ronald N. Bracewell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
Buy New: $150.00
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 132873
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Pages: 640
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0073039381
Dewey Decimal Number: 515.723
EAN: 9780073039381
Publication Date: June 8, 1999
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Product Description
This text is designed for use in a senior undergraduate or graduate level course in Fourier Transforms. This text differs from many other fourier transform books in its emphasis on applications. Bracewell applies mathematical concepts to the physical world throughout this text, equipping students to think about the world and physics in terms of transforms. The pedagogy in this classic text is excellent. The author has included such tools as the pictorial dictionary of transforms and bibliographic references. In addition, there are many excellent problems throughout this book, which are more than mathematical exercises, often requiring students to think in terms of specific situations or asking for educated opinions. To aid students further, discussions of many of the problems can be found at the end of the book.
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 The best of the best on Fourier theory May 6, 1999
35 out of 36 found this review helpful
This book by the Fourier monoply, Ronald Bracewell, is absolutely the best book on the Fourier transform. The concepts are very clearly illustrated with easily understood plain English. The whole complicated theory has been made so simple in this book. And more impressively, the whole book only employes very little complicated mathematics and still keep the theory complete and mathematically rigorous. When reading other books on Fourier theories, I always find the authors rely too much on the mathematical derivations to develope the theory and they themselves seem to not comprehend the essence of the theory. While in this book, Bracewell made every concept intuitively sensible. I will recommend every one who wants to learn Fourier theory to start from this book rather than any other books, which are usually rather confusing and not self-contained. You can get a 10 times deeper understanding on the whole theory with 10 times less difficulty.
excellent on fundamentals January 25, 2000
K. B. Shah (Santa Clara, CA, USA)
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
If you are looking for thorough explanations with great physical insight - this is the book to get. It is for people who want to know WHY more than HOW. However, If you are looking for how (to implement), I suggest the book "Fast Fourier Transform" by Brigham
Truly Magical Introduction to Transform Application February 15, 1999
J. Thompson (Laurel, MD United States)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I first was exposed to this book in 1965, in the form of galley proofs used by my new PhD teacher who had just finished Dr. Bracewell's first course. The Fourier, Hankel, etc. transforms are usually taught as 'black art', often by the unilluminated themselves . Dr. Bracewell lets in the light! An intuitive, necessary feel for the effects of the transforms and their inverses on the problem domain is presented, as well as a basis for the reader understanding this on his/her own . One hesitates to wax effusive over a text, but for 35 years the vision offered in this book has improved this writer's understanding of processes and situations ranging from refinery signal processing and queue theory to image enhancement on the Hubble Space Telescope (also a current work for Dr, Bracewell - the man never stops!). Buy it. Read it. Understand. Smile.
The best book for Fourier transform June 22, 2003
Daniel (New York, NY,United States)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
When I came to the field of Fourier transform, the book provides me a clear, easy-understanding picture to the field so that I believe any of you can get into the field by use of the book. If you are looking for your first book to Fourier transform, don't waste your time, it is. Even through my life in the research, I depended on it most of the time. It's too great.
A great book. June 4, 1998
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Provides a good coverage from an applied/engineering perspective rather than a pure/mathematical one. The introduction to non-standard analysis, and its application in linking the Fourier series and transform was a revelation. As was the ability to take the transform when all the preconditions are violated.
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