Abstract
FOURIER'S series arises in the attempt to express, by an infinite series of sines (and cosines) of multiples of x, a function of x which has given values in an interval, say from x =,-π to x =π. There is no “curve” in the problem. Curves occur in the solution of the problem, and there they occur by way of illustration. There are two sorts of curves which occur.
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LOVE, A. Fourier's Series. Nature 59, 200–201 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059200c0
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