Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!hubcap!gatech!udel!haven!mimsy!fe2o3!michael From: michael@fe2o3.laurel.md.us (Michael Katzmann) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Fast Fourier Transform source Message-ID: <420@fe2o3.laurel.md.us> Date: 22 Oct 90 19:42:27 GMT References: <80@nososl.UUCP> <28372:Oct1904:47:5590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Reply-To: michael@fe2o3.laurel.md.us.UUCP (Michael Katzmann) Organization: Rusty's BSD machine at home Lines: 12 In article <28372:Oct1904:47:5590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >In article <80@nososl.UUCP> tom@nordic-offshore.no (Tom Aaslund) writes: >> I am looking for a "C" (K&R) source code of "Fast Fourier Transform". >> FFT was first described by Cooley & Tukey in 1965, but that's about >> all I know. So I would appreciate some doc. as well. > >Actually, the FFT was first described by Gauss. It was popularized by >Cooley and Tukey. > Are you sure you are not confusing the Fourier Transform with the Fast Fourier Transform. From what I remember Cooley and Tukey WERE the first to describe the Fast FT.