Article ID: CBB000048510

Gauss and the history of the fast Fourier transform (1985)

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Description The fast Fourier transform (FFT) has been used as an efficient algorithm for calculation of the Fourier series. Carl Friedrich Gauss may have come up with a very similar algorithm.


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Authors & Contributors
Reich, Karin
Débarbat, Suzanne
Robinson, Donald W.
Merzbach, Uta C.
Waterhouse, William C.
Campbell, Paul J.
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Mitteilungen, Gauss- Gesellschaft E.V. Göttingen
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Actes du ... Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
Birkhäuser
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Niedersächsische Staats- und Univ.-Bibl.
Concepts
Mathematics
Astronomy
Number theory; number concept
Geomagnetism
Algebra
Arithmetic
People
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Pell, John
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
Cauchy, Augustin Louis
Herschel, John Frederick William
Fermat, Pierre de
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Germany
Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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