Using the -function we may now complete the integral in (10),
The integral appears as the product of the two functions in Figure 3.4.2.
Because the peak may be made arbitrarily narrow, the values of u which contribute to the integral are so tiny that we may make the approximation with a small error proportional to at most and which will vanish in the final limit . Thus, we have
Our initial guess was nearly correct! We have found
or
This tells us that if we take the superposition
we may find from from the inverse relationship
(12) and (13) taken together are the Fourier inversion theorem, where the operation in (12), is known as the Fourier transform, while the operation in (13), is the inverse Fourier transform.