Audio Edition: What Is the Fourier Transform?
Jun 18, 2026•13 min
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Episode description
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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