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Fourier series

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Part of the book series: Texts and Readings in Mathematics ((TRIM,volume 38))

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In the previous two chapters, we discussed the issue of how certain functions (for instance, compactly supported continuous functions) could be approximated by polynomials. Later, we showed how a different class of functions (real analytic functions) could be written exactly (not approximately) as an infinite polynomial, or more precisely a power series.

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Tao, T. (2016). Fourier series. In: Analysis II. Texts and Readings in Mathematics, vol 38. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1804-6_5

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