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Fourier
Fourier
(
pronounced
, French pronunciation
/fu.ʁi'e/
) can mean:
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
, a
French
mathematician
and
physicist
.
Charles Fourier
, a
French
utopian socialist
thinker.
The
Fourier series
which can reduce any periodic function to a sum of sine and cosine terms.
The
Fourier transform
, an integral transform that re-expresses a function in terms of sinusoidal basis functions.
01-04-2007 01:18:14
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