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From: Greg Heath <heath@alumni.brown.edu>
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Subject: Re: Hilbert Transform
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On May 8, 4:34=A0pm, "Andy Robb" <ajr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "David Egger" <egg...@sbox.tugraz.at> wrote in message

> Cooley-Tukey invented the modern FFT

No. Cooley-Tukey made the technique known to a wider
audience.

Oscar Buneman ( a German mathematician at Cambridge who
was interred by the British during WWII) used it during his
research for the allies on computer simulations of the radar
magnetron. He was the first to understand the inner workings
of the magnetron that allowed British radars to become practical.

He and his students used the technique in the early 1960s
at the Stanford University Institute for Plasma Research.

He had used the technique in the 1930s before he escaped
from Germany. As far as he knew the technique was being
used during the 1920s and had its origins before 1900.

Hope this helps.

Greg