Download or read book A First Course in Harmonic Analysis written by Anton Deitmar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces harmonic analysis at an undergraduate level. In doing so it covers Fourier analysis and paves the way for Poisson Summation Formula. Another central feature is that is makes the reader aware of the fact that both principal incarnations of Fourier theory, the Fourier series and the Fourier transform, are special cases of a more general theory arising in the context of locally compact abelian groups. The final goal of this book is to introduce the reader to the techniques used in harmonic analysis of noncommutative groups. These techniques are explained in the context of matrix groups as a principal example.