Everything about Z-transform

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Z-transformA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Application of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy in Characterization of Green Synthesized NanoparticlesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: BibleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transformCited 49,641 times
5. Go sideways: Pole–zero plotA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Minimum phaseA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

  Heng Li, Richard Durbin · 2009 · Bioinformatics · 49,641 citations

• MAFFT: a novel method for rapid multiple sequence alignment based on fast Fourier transform

  K. Katoh · 2002 · Nucleic Acids Research · 16,274 citations

• Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

  Heng Li, Richard Durbin · 2010 · Bioinformatics · 11,833 citations

• The use of fast Fourier transform for the estimation of power spectra: A method based on time averaging over short, modified periodograms

  P. Welch · 1967 · IEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics · 11,002 citations

• Image Denoising by Sparse 3-D Transform-Domain Collaborative Filtering

  Kostadin Dabov, Alessandro Foi, Vladimir Katkovnik · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 8,180 citations

• On the use of windows for harmonic analysis with the discrete Fourier transform

  F.J. Harris · 1978 · Proceedings of the IEEE · 5,924 citations

• Application of the cross wavelet transform and wavelet coherence to geophysical time series

  A. Grinsted, J. C. Moore, S. Jevrejeva · 2004 · Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics · 5,669 citations

• The wavelet transform, time-frequency localization and signal analysis

  I. Daubechies · 1990 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 5,190 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Application of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy in Characterization of Green Synthesized Nanoparticles

  Sylwia Pasieczna-Patkowska, Marcin Cichy, Jolanta Flieger · 2025 · Molecules · 836 citations

• Lisocabtagene maraleucel versus standard of care with salvage chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation as second-line treatment in patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma (TRANSFORM): results from an interim analysis of an open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial

  Manali Kamdar, Scott R Solomon, Jon Arnason · 2022 · The Lancet · 803 citations

• Liquid biopsy: a step closer to transform diagnosis, prognosis and future of cancer treatments

  Saife N. Lone, Sabah Nisar, Tariq Masoodi · 2022 · Molecular Cancer · 795 citations

• Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science?

  Caleb Ziems, William Held, Omar Shaikh · 2024 · Computational Linguistics · 489 citations

• Bond Characterization in Cementitious Material Binders Using Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

  Moruf Olalekan Yusuf · 2023 · Applied Sciences · 469 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• BibleBible · 1200
• 📕PicassoPablo Picasso · 1955
• Becoming NicoleAmy Ellis Nutt · 2015
• Introduction to Electromagnetic TheoryTai L. Chow · 2005
• 📕Transforming livesNational University of Singapore · 2005
• 📕The transformation of the Meng Chiang-nü story in Chinese popular literatureQiugui Wang · 1977
• 📕Taiwan de she hui zhuan xing yu fu li zhi du gai geJiqiong Luo · 2020
• 📕Nudité sacréeElisa de Halleux, Marianna Lora · 2011

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🔗 Related topics

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• Two-sided Laplace transform In mathematics, the two-sided Laplace transform or bilateral Laplace transform is an integral transform equivalent to probability's moment-generating function…
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