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Summary: Truly Magical Introduction to Transform Application
Review: 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 <Give them a fish>. 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 <Teach them how to fish>. 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.
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Summary: Truly Magical Introduction to Transform Application
Review: 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 <Give them a fish>. 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 <Teach them how to fish>. 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.
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Summary: excellent on fundamentals
Review: 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
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Summary: A great book.
Review: 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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Summary: The best of the best on Fourier theory
Review: 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.
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Summary: Good book on practical, fourier analysis, excellent problems
Review: This book is an old classic in fourier analysis - it emphasizes intuitive understanding and uses images a lot to convey information, e.g. the book includes a pictorial dictionary of fourier transforms, and recommends using the method of dragging a strip of paper to get a better understanding of convolutions. The problems are challenging and very interesting, e.g. one problem asks the reader to explain the differences in spectra when reconstructing a signal by linear interpolation vs. sketching a smooth graph between the sample points by hand. (there are also easier problems for to begin with, before one tackles "engineering" questions as the one above) Highly recommended!
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Summary: this is not worth buying.... even at a 90% sale.
Review: this is a sad excuse of a text book. It may serve as a reasonable reference.. but as a teaching tool it utterly fails its purpose. the wording are about as clear as sewer water and the problem set are uninformative and tedious for the most part.
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Summary: unusual and rare symbolism to be an engineering book!!!!!!!!
Review: Too confusing...it does not use standard engineering symbols, like for tables, you just need a week to get use to it. For starters...I don't recommend it.
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Summary: The best book for Fourier transform
Review: 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.
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