[PStamler]

On Saturday, September 13, 2014 12:17:28 PM UTC-6, Scott Dorsey wrote:
PStamler wrote:

While we're here...who first discovered the Nyquist sampling theory?



Is this like asking who is buried in Grant's tomb?


Well, that's the intent. But the sampling theory normally attributed to Nyquist (1928) was also developed by Edward T. Whittaker (1915), Karl Kupfmuller (1928, published 1931), Vladimir Kotel'nikov (1933 - later he worked on radar scans of Venus), J. M. Whittaker (1935 -- don't know if he was related to Edward), H. Raabe (1939), Dennis Gabor (1946 -- he also developed holography and won a Nobel for it) and Claude Shannon (1949). All independently, as far as I can tell.

Peace,
Paul