Harmonic Analysis
In the context of harmonic analysis, a branch of mathematics, the uncertainty principle implies that one cannot at the same time localize the value of a function and its Fourier transform. To wit, the following inequality holds:
Other purely mathematical formulations of uncertainty exist between a function f and its Fourier transform.
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