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Z Transform History

The z-transform was developed in the 1950s to analyze sampled systems motivated by post-WW2 radar research. Yakov Tsypkin in Moscow, John Ragazzini at Columbia University, and Eli Jury and Lotfi Zadeh at the University of California, Berkeley all contributed to early work on the z-transform. In a letter, Lotfi Zadeh notes that his 1952 paper with Ragazzini introduced the z-transform, representing sampling as a convolution with delta functions. Zadeh used 'z' as the transform variable based on its use in mathematical literature on difference equations rather than because of his own name.

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Z Transform History

The z-transform was developed in the 1950s to analyze sampled systems motivated by post-WW2 radar research. Yakov Tsypkin in Moscow, John Ragazzini at Columbia University, and Eli Jury and Lotfi Zadeh at the University of California, Berkeley all contributed to early work on the z-transform. In a letter, Lotfi Zadeh notes that his 1952 paper with Ragazzini introduced the z-transform, representing sampling as a convolution with delta functions. Zadeh used 'z' as the transform variable based on its use in mathematical literature on difference equations rather than because of his own name.

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History of the z-Transform

Post WW2 research in sampled systems movated by radar systems


z-Transform developed in the 1950s:

Yakov Tsypkin John Ragazzini Eli Jury Loi Zadeh


(Moscow) (Columbia)
Prof. Zadeh: Berkeley EECS Profs
Dear Murat,
[] I am pleased to learn that you are talking about z-transformaon in your lecture on
Monday. [] My paper with Ragazzini was published in 1952. Ragazzini was my Ph.D.
supervisor. [] In the period before the paper was published there was a growing recognion
that sampling a signal was an important part of signal processing. Sampling played a key role
in Shannon's work. At that me, it occurred to me that it was natural to look at sampling as a
convoluon of a signal with a sequence of delta-funcon, transforming the signal into what
was called the z-transform. I used the leer z not because of my name but because in the
mathemacal literature on dierence equaons, z was the symbol that was used. []
Sincerely, Loi

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