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Title: The book is not useful unless you're already a mathematician
Review: After struggling with this book for a semester, it became apparent to me that while the book is rich in scope, its allusions to so many branches of mathematics and incomplete detailing of these allusions merely serve to bewilder the undergraduate and rookie grad. student of mathematics. Indeed, the book is an excellent reference for those who are already EXTREMELY well-versed in the subject and/or are looking to branch out into more detail and abstraction. For the rest of us, however, this book is ENTIRELY unsuitable--even, I daresay, for the "advanced undergraduate" this book purports to aim itself at. So ignore the hype of professional book reviewers and take it from someone in the trenches: buy something intelligible from the myriad of books out there on Fourier Theory and Harmonic Analysis.
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