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Fourier transforms play an important role in quantum mechanics and as such, we devote a (short) chapter giving a brief account of Fourier transforms.
The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
H.W. Turnbull in The Great Mathematicians
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R.N. Bracewell, The Fourier Transform and its Applications, McGraw-Hill, New York (1986).
E.C. Titchmarsh, Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1948).
A. Ghatak, Optics, (Second Edition), Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi (1992).
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Ghatak, A., Lokanathan, S. (2004). Fourier Transforms. In: Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Applications. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 137. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2130-5_2
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