Fourier Analysis: Continuous Signals and Systems

Abstract

Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron de Fourier, was thirty years old when he accompanied Napoleon on the latter’s Egyptian campaign in 1798. He became governor of Lower Egypt and contributed many scientific papers to the Egyptian Institute which Napoleon founded, but when the French army capitulated in 1801 he returned to France and was made Prefect of the Department of Grenoble.

“Thus it appears that the lobster’s tail is composed of a series of segments which are fundamentally similar, though each presents peculiar modifications of the plan common to all.”

from an essay by T.H. Huxley (1825–1895)