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FourierTransform

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• Subject: [mg52517] FourierTransform
• From: "Dr A.H. Harker" <a.harker at ucl.ac.uk>
• Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:24:41 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In Version 4 Mathematica was smart enough to know that

FourierTransform[f'[x], x, k]

should give

-\[ImaginaryI] k FourierTransform[f[x], x, k].

 Version 5 seems no longer to do this -- a nice classroom demonstration and
a valuable method of solving differential equations down in flames.  

  Why is this?


 Tony Harker (Dr A.H. Harker)
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