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Title: Excellent!
Review: This book makes great reading. There is a fair amount of (well written) high level mathematics, but also a number of sections of a more historical or narrative nature, and a wonderful sense of humor pervades the work. The account of the laying of the transatlantic cable in the nineteenth century and the technical problems associated with it is priceless. Several sections are devoted to the life of Fourier. There is also a companion volume entitled ``Exercises for Fourier analysis''.
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