The Hartley Transform

by Ronald Newbold Bracewell

The author describes the fast algorithm he discovered for spectral analysis and indeed any purpose to which Fourier Transforms and the Fast Fourier Transform are normally applied.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195039696
• ISBN13: 9780195039696
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

An alternative to Fourier Transforms

Ronald Bracewell is a well known expert and advocate of harmonic analysis. This sweet little book can be digested in a few days (with a lot of mustard and relish). It's a little over 150 pages divided into 9 chapters and 2 appendices. The chapters cover the integral Hartley transform, its discrete version, the fast algorithm version, 1-D and 2-D applications, and digital filtering by convolution and some other "stuff" that frankly didn't interest me too much. The appendices include an atlas of Hartley transforms, and - best of all - a set of useful computer programs. The programs are written in BASIC but that's almost pseudo-code so you can translate to another computer language without much problem. Unlike the complex number math in Fourier transforms, the Hartley transform is a real number integral transform. Give it a look, but buy the cheaper,used book. (Is it just me or are science/math books becoming too EXPENSIVE)?