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Greg Heath <heath@alumni.brown.edu> wrote in message
<75f62485-a221-47f2-97ba-748614faf288@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>...
> 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
Thank you!

I don't want to know,who found the fft algorithm Andy. I
want to know, who invented the fft approaching the Hilbert
transform,do anyone knows that and some book I could cite?