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Learning Calculus

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Josh ·

Correct me if I am wrong but as far as I know, FFT uses calculus equations. I was thinking of learning calculus and the "calculus for dummies" book springs to mind. If you have any other book recommendations for total noobs to learn calculus, let me know. 🙂

oddson ·

Electrogravtiy wrote: Correct me if I am wrong but as far as I know, FFT uses calculus equations...

I'm sure calculus comes up in the theory but DSP involves discrete approximations to continuous signals.

It uses summation rather than integration and difference instead of derivatives.

Discrete mathematics and time series analysis, rather than calculus, is the core.

Josh ·

Thanks for the advice. I'll see what I can find on Discrete mathematics and time series analysis.

gregh ·

the fft can be used to solve (partial) differential equations so can be used to do calculus

What are you wanting to learn about - ie what do you want to do

Josh ·

I want to learn more about coding DSP. I figured the fist step is to learn the maths. FFT seems as good a place as any to start i guess.

gregh ·

try this - the section at the top on elementary signal processing and mathematics

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/mdft/

there are lots of links within the articles to stuff you need, so you'll have to jump around a bit

also

http://www.dspguide.com/

Josh ·

Thanks for the links, I'll check em out. 🙂

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