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Audio Edition: What Is the Fourier Transform?

13 min•18 juni 2026

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. 

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