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harmonic analysis

noun

Definition of harmonic analysis

: the expression of a periodic function as a sum of sines and cosines and specifically by a Fourier series

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 After introducing new ideas in harmonic analysis and obtaining important results in an area called Calderón-Zygmund operator theory in the 1970s, Meyer wandered to the fledgling study of wavelets in the mid-1980s. — Quanta Magazine, "Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize," 21 Mar. 2017

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First Known Use of harmonic analysis

1867, in the meaning defined above

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