Audio Edition: What Is the Fourier Transform?
About this episode
The episode explores the historical significance and mathematical implications of the Fourier transform.
Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any function into its parts. The story What Is the Fourier Transform? first appeared on Quanta Magazine.
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