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" Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics. "
Elements of Natural Philosophy - Page 28
by William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1873 - 279 pages
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Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Volume 42

Royal Institution of Naval Architects - Naval architecture - 1900 - 450 pages
..." Not only is it (the Fourier Series) one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument...nearly every recondite question in modern physics." After reading the proof of Professor Lorenz's paper, I analysed a crank-effort curve into a Fourier...
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Treatise on Natural Philosophy, Part 1

William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1912 - 536 pages
...Theorem. Qf harmonic motions, wo must, as promised in § 62, devote some pages to the consideration of Fourier's Theorem, which is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but may bu said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question...
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Plane and Sperical Trigonometry (with Five-place Tables): A Text-book for ...

Robert Édouard Moritz - Trigonometry - 1913 - 562 pages
...simple language and without proof a most famous theorem, which in the language of Thomson and Tait * " is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern...vibrations, the propagation of electric signals along telegraph wires, and the conduction of heat by the earth,s crust, as subjects in their generality intractable...
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Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath's Quotation-book

Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 434 pages
...Elementar Mathematik vom hd'heren Standpunkte aus. (Leipzig. 1909) Vol. 2, p. 364. 1928. Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question...
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Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics, with Special ...

Joseph William Mellor - Chemistry - 1919 - 680 pages
...a?k, X - ---— -~ CHAPTEE VIII. FOURIER'S THEOREM. "Fourier's theorem is not only one of the moat beautiful results of modern analysis, but may be said...intractable without it, is to give but a feeble idea of its importance."—THOMSON AMI TAIT. § 148. Fourier's Series. SOUND, as we all know, is produced whenever...
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The Mechanics of Vibration

R. E. D. Bishop, D. C. Johnson - Technology & Engineering - 1979 - 616 pages
...system [see equation (10.1.19)]. CHAPTER 11 NON-HARMONIC AND TRANSIENT VIBRATION Fourier's Theorem ... is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but may be said to furnish an indispensible instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics. To...
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Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin

Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 906 pages
...afterwards 'mechanical methods of obtaining such combinations'. Finally, referring to its importance as 'an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics', from rotation of the plane of polarized light by crystals and magnetic fields to the propagation of...
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Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin

Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 906 pages
...afterwards 'mechanical methods of obtaining such combinations'. Finally, referring to its importance as 'an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics', from rotation of the plane of polarized light by crystals and magnetic fields to the propagation of...
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Explorers of the Southern Sky: A History of Australian Astronomy

Raymond Haynes - Reference - 1996 - 550 pages
...words, 'Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument...nearly every recondite question in modern physics'." Brian Robinson has commented that 'the awareness in Radiophysics of Fourier Transforms and their application...
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Explorers of the Southern Sky: A History of Australian Astronomy

Raymond Haynes - Reference - 1996 - 550 pages
...automatically in these terms thereafter. He has quoted with feeling Lord Kelvin's words, 'Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question...
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