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, ...
A talk, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform, was presented by [Joshua Wise] at Teardown 2025 in June last year. Click-through for the notes or check out the video below the ...
Lorraine Besser received funding for this research from the Templeton Foundation, in coordination with St. Louis University, and from Middlebury College. Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too ...