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The study of spherical harmonics has a long history, over 200 years by now. Classical spherical harmonics on the unit sphere of three dimensional Euclidean space can be viewed as extensions of trigonometric functions on the unit circle.
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- Unit Circle
- Unit Disk
- Unit Sphere
- Spherical Harmonic
- Oceanic Physic
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Atkinson, K., Han, W. (2012). Preliminaries. In: Spherical Harmonics and Approximations on the Unit Sphere: An Introduction. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25983-8_1
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