A Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms: With Applications in Physics and Engineering

I found this book to be an excellent guide and it really helped me understand Fourier Transforms better.

Good theory and apllications. Maybe it could have more exercises in popular math software lihe Mathlab, mathematica or Maple. Interesting for people from health sciences studying mathematics, like Biomedical Engineer. I think it is graduate level.

A new edition of a classic introduction to Fourier transforms. Suitable for undergraduates or the curious.

Enjoyed the text. Easy reading when caught in doctors office waiting on your turn and also a good nitetime read.

Ok

Good for a quick introduction to the topic. Not a lot of depth but some good example applications. Worthwhile for a quick reference.

Handy resource -- best of the Cambridge "Student's Guides". A colleague (who teaches the material) recommended this to me, and I like it and have subsequently recommended it to a number of students myself. The book is what it says: a "Student's Guide"... NOT a "textbook" -- the other reviewers who want MATLAB code, additional exercises, more theory, are missing the point, as is the one who says the book lacks a well defined audience: this is not a textbook, but a supplement for the student (or professional) who wants a quick, easy way in to some additional review, summary, or a short introduction. The book does this very well, and is appropriately short to suit that purpose. (Note: it is not a Schaum's Outline either, with a zillion worked exercises... that's yet a different beast.) This book fits nicely in the same zone as "Quick Calculus" by Ramsey and Kleppner, and "Div, Grad, Curl and all that" by Schey... neither designed to be the last word, or a stand-alone text, and both designed to help physics and engineering students get a handle on using the math. If you want more, the classic reference (and textbook, with some suggested MATLAB exercises) is Bracewell's "The Fourier Transform and its Applications", The Fourier Transform & Its Applications , which _IS_ a textbook designed for a class, and (like many texts) not as quick to use as a reference unless you already worked through it once in a class. I love that book, and recommend it highly... but it serves a different purpose. James' book is a great "Student's Guide".

In a reply to earlier reviews , I have to say that this is a very useful book to help students to see clearly how Fourier Transforms works. If you do not know anything about Fourier, you don’t need a book like this, then you should occupy yourself with former material first. This guide starts on a level most graduate students are already comfortable with. Thanks to J.F. James.

The Students guide to Maxwell's Equations gives the reader a thourough understanding of a phenomen through plain text with clear examples, then gives the reader a great understanding of the relevence and or aplications of the phenomon, and only then does it proceed to explain the mathmatics that describe the phenomon (giving all variables and constants a good intreduction). This buildup is linked to its succes in educating students! Lifting on the succes of other books in the series is this book: A Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms, that ironicly should be named A Student's Maze to Fourier transforms. The book starts by throwing some formula's at the reader containing vagly discribed formula's confusing the reader. Ones the reader is fuly confused and has repeatidly flipped to the first page to verify wether the book is even published on planet earth he is finaly met with some examples, only to further confuse him. *Conclusion* The book contains some usefull information if the reader allready knows the fourier transformation. However in the current state the book is not aimed at students trying to learn the transformations, and in my opinion not really a good book. The book should eather be removed from the student's guide series or be rewritten to follow the: discribe phenomenon --> importance fenomenon --> intreduction to equations and symbols --> linking equations to discription of phenomenon. All great study books I have read up to now how followed a similar structure. PS. My appologies for apauling grammar and spelling.

exp(j２πνt）でνとtを変数にしているのでフーリエ変換の対称性がよいのが特徴。第３版になって誤植も減っている。146ページで一通りのことは書いてある。分かりやすいのでStudent's Guideとあるように初学者におすすめ。

Very nice! Recommended for all physics students.

I bought this book, thinking that it would be largely a refresher course for what I had learned at university, and over the decades since. I was shocked to discover that all of that material was covered in the introduction, Chapter One. I am greatly impressed by the coverage of this student introductory guide.

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