This representation of sound, as a discrete “frame” of frequencies and amplitudes independent of time, is more akin to the way in which we perceive our sonic environment than the raw pressure wave of the time domain. Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, a nineteenth-century French mathematician, developed the equations that allow us to translate a sound pressure wave (no matter how complex) into its constituent frequencies and amplitudes. This <em>Fourier transform</em> is an important tool in working with sound in the computer.
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