Thomas William Körner

Fourier analysis is a subject that was born in physics but grew up in mathematics. Now it is part of the standard repertoire for mathematicians, physicists and engineers. This diversity of interest is often overlooked, but in this much-loved book, Tom Körner provides a shop window for some of the ideas, teehhniques and elegant results of Fourier analysis, and for their applications. These range from numbertheory, numerical : analysis, controltheory and statistics, to earth science, astronomy and electrical engineering.
The prerequisites arefew (a reader with knowledge of second- orthird-year undergraduate mathematics should have no difficulty following the text), and the style is lively and entertaining. This edition of Körner's 1989 text includes a foreword written by Professor Terence Tao introducing into a new generation of fans.