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:<math> c_n = \frac{1}{P} \int_0^P f(\xi) \exp\left(\frac{-2\pi inx}{P}\right)\,d\xi \ . </math> | :<math> c_n = \frac{1}{P} \int_0^P f(\xi) \exp\left(\frac{-2\pi inx}{P}\right)\,d\xi \ . </math> | ||
In what sense it may be said that this series converges to ''f''(''x'') is a somewhat delicate question.<ref name=Hardy/> However, physicists being less delicate than mathematicians in these matters, simply write | In what sense it may be said that this series converges to ''f''(''x'') is a somewhat delicate question.<ref name=Hardy/><ref name=Jahnke/> However, physicists being less delicate than mathematicians in these matters, simply write | ||
:<math>f(\xi) = \sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty c_n e^{2\pi in\xi/P} \ ,</math> | :<math>f(\xi) = \sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty c_n e^{2\pi in\xi/P} \ ,</math> | ||
and usually do not worry too much about the conditions to be imposed on the arbitrary function ''f''(ξ) of period ''P'' in order that this expansion converge to the function. | and usually do not worry too much about the conditions to be imposed on the arbitrary function ''f''(ξ) of period ''P'' in order that this expansion converge to the function. | ||
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{{cite book |title=Fourier Series |author=G. H. Hardy, Werner Rogosinski |chapter=Chapter IV: Convergence of Fourier series |pages=pp. 37 ''ff'' |isbn= 0486406814 |year=1999 |edition=Reprint of Cambridge University Press 1956 ed|publisher=Courier Dover Publications |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=t2QpTZI_6mwC&pg=PA37}} | {{cite book |title=Fourier Series |author=G. H. Hardy, Werner Rogosinski |chapter=Chapter IV: Convergence of Fourier series |pages=pp. 37 ''ff'' |isbn= 0486406814 |year=1999 |edition=Reprint of Cambridge University Press 1956 ed|publisher=Courier Dover Publications |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=t2QpTZI_6mwC&pg=PA37}} | ||
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For an historical account, see {{cite book |title=A History of Analysis |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CVRZEXFVsZkC&pg=PA178 |pages=pp. 178 ''ff'' |chapter=§6.5 Convergence of Fourier series |author=Hans Niels Jahnke |isbn=0821826239 |year=2003 |publisher=American Mathematical Society}} | |||
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In mathematics, the Fourier series, named after Joseph Fourier (1768—1830), of a complex-valued periodic function f of a real variable ξ, of period P:
is equivalent to an infinite series
defined by
In what sense it may be said that this series converges to f(x) is a somewhat delicate question.[1][2] However, physicists being less delicate than mathematicians in these matters, simply write
and usually do not worry too much about the conditions to be imposed on the arbitrary function f(ξ) of period P in order that this expansion converge to the function.
References
- ↑ G. H. Hardy, Werner Rogosinski (1999). “Chapter IV: Convergence of Fourier series”, Fourier Series, Reprint of Cambridge University Press 1956 ed. Courier Dover Publications, pp. 37 ff. ISBN 0486406814.
- ↑ For an historical account, see Hans Niels Jahnke (2003). “§6.5 Convergence of Fourier series”, A History of Analysis. American Mathematical Society, pp. 178 ff. ISBN 0821826239.