Abstract
The Fourier series is a mathematical tool for expressing an arbitrary sinusoidal (periodic) functions as a sum of simpler periodic functions. It is a sub-branch of the mathematical field of harmonic analysis. The Fourier series is named after the French mathematician Joseph Fourier, who utilized Fourier series in his work “The Analytical Theory of Heat”. It is used in several fields of study including image processing (in particular medical imaging), signal analysis, data compression, spectroscopy and acoustics among many others. In the science of foods, it finds an indirect application in the study of heat transfer in foods. In this chapter, sucrose levels in cold-sweetened potato tubers will be modelled using a Fourier series.
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