Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:1, Lb:0]
- Fourier series: General properties, applications of Fourier
series, properties of Fourier series, Gibbs phenomenon, discrete
Fourier transform, relation with fast Fourier transforms.
- Integral transforms: Fourier integral, Fourier transforms, inversion
theorem, Fourier transform of derivatives, convolution theorem,
Laplace transform and its relation to Fourier transform. Laplace
transform solution to differential equations. convolution theorem,
Inverse Laplace transform.
- Introduction to integral equations: Integral transforms, generating
functions, Neumann series, separable Kernels, Hilbert-Schmidt
theory.
- Calculus of Variations: One dependent and an independent variable,
Euler's equations, several dependent variables, several independent
variables, Lagrangian multipliers, variation with constraints.
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- Mary L. Boas, Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, Wiley (2005).