14-04-2014, 12:10 PM
Frequency domain representation, DTFT, IDTFT, DFT, IDFT
Some history
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born in France in 1768. He attended the Ecole Royale Militaire and in 1790 became a teacher there. Fourier continued his studies at the Ecole Normale in Paris, having as his teachers Lagrange, Laplace, and Monge. Later on, he, together with Monge and Malus, joined Napoleon as scientific advisors to his expedition to Egypt where Fourier established the Cairo Institute.
In 1822 Fourier has published his most famous work: The Analytical Theory of Heat. Fourier showed how the conduction of heat in solid bodies may be analyzed in terms of infinite mathematical series now called by his name, the Fourier series.