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@@ -68,12 +68,13 @@ It is easy to show that any product of cosines and sines can be expressed as the
As a final test to see if the Fourier series really could exist for any periodic function, we consider a periodic function with a sharp peak as shown below
-![*Peak Function Image*](/peak_func.gif)
+<center>![*Peak Function Image*](/peak_func.gif) </center>
If it is possible to approximate the above function using a sum of sines and cosines, then it can be argued that *any* continuous periodic function can be expressed in a similar way. This is because any function could be expressed as a number of peaks at every position.
It turns out that the above function can be approximated as the sum of two cosines, namely, $\cos^{2n}(x) + cos^{2n+1}(x)$
-<center>![alt text](/cos10x.gif) ![alt text](/cos11x.gif) </center>
+<center>![$\cos^{2n}(x)$](/cos10x.gif) ![$cos^{2n+1}(x)$](/cos11x.gif) </center>
+Summing these two
##What is the Fourier series actually?</b>