Fast Fourier Transform and Its Applications

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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This book is great, its concepts are in both mathmatical and intuitive forms. The graphical approach makes it easy to understand yet you still get the equations for actual implementations. The second half of the book is all about examples/applications that are applicable towards all disciplines. Excellent choice for understanding of the FFT!

Rating:
Summary: Excellent book
Review: This book is great, its concepts are in both mathmatical and intuitive forms. The graphical approach makes it easy to understand yet you still get the equations for actual implementations. The second half of the book is all about examples/applications that are applicable towards all disciplines. Excellent choice for understanding of the FFT!

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Summary: The fast fourier transform and its applications
Review: This is a great book, which goes into details in a fashion that can gratify both those who need just a pinciple concept and a mathematical understanding.

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Summary: Excellent, A True Gem, Learn Signal Analysis & FFTs Here
Review: This is an excellent, excellent text covering continuous and discrete-time signals/systems. Yes, it's ultimate focus is on the FFT, but about 50% of the content is basic continuous- and discrete-time signal analysis concepts, explained thoroughly, with superb graphic examples, and textual information from an obviously talented thinker, writer, communicator. It is extremely comprehensive but written 'patiently', bordering on the active voice style, which seems to be in short supply these days. If you had that well known and universally despised "S&S" textbook in college, torch it, buy this text, clean the slate, start over. There's no need to live with spectrophobia. This text has none of the usual inward, regurgitated extra-academic nonsense, the author clearly set out to write a fresh and original book. Read it slowly, the examples are vivid. You'll attain a visual feel for just what a linear transformation is, what the Fourier Transform is, and you'll develop the necessary intuition to allow you to be able to imagine both time and frequency domain relationships in a qualitative, systems oriented way (and this is where you want to be, trust me). The sections on convolution, correlation, discrete sampling, DFTs, finite-length effects, well, they're just perfect, with numerous mind-altering graphic examples. Many of these examples show side-by-side what happens in time and frequency domains simultaneously. It's clear that the author, unlike so many others, had a genuine interest in teaching and communicating. There's plenty of rigorous stuff if you want to go in deep, and I recommend it. The FFT sections are from the ground up - after a time you'll be able to design your own FT strategies and implement them with confidence. The best engineering text on the planet. Good Luck!

Rating:
Summary: Excellent, A True Gem, Learn Signal Analysis & FFTs Here
Review: This is an excellent, excellent text covering continuous and discrete-time signals/systems. Yes, it's ultimate focus is on the FFT, but about 50% of the content is basic continuous- and discrete-time signal analysis concepts, explained thoroughly, with superb graphic examples, and textual information from an obviously talented thinker, writer, communicator. It is extremely comprehensive but written 'patiently', bordering on the active voice style, which seems to be in short supply these days. If you had that well known and universally despised "S&S" textbook in college, torch it, buy this text, clean the slate, start over. There's no need to live with spectrophobia. This text has none of the usual inward, regurgitated extra-academic nonsense, the author clearly set out to write a fresh and original book. Read it slowly, the examples are vivid. You'll attain a visual feel for just what a linear transformation is, what the Fourier Transform is, and you'll develop the necessary intuition to allow you to be able to imagine both time and frequency domain relationships in a qualitative, systems oriented way (and this is where you want to be, trust me). The sections on convolution, correlation, discrete sampling, DFTs, finite-length effects, well, they're just perfect, with numerous mind-altering graphic examples. Many of these examples show side-by-side what happens in time and frequency domains simultaneously. It's clear that the author, unlike so many others, had a genuine interest in teaching and communicating. There's plenty of rigorous stuff if you want to go in deep, and I recommend it. The FFT sections are from the ground up - after a time you'll be able to design your own FT strategies and implement them with confidence. The best engineering text on the planet. Good Luck!