This video explains why the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is often called the most important algorithm ever created. Originally developed to help detect hidden nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War ...

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Over at Quanta Magazine [Shalma Wegsman] asks What Is the Fourier Transform? [Shalma] begins by telling you a little about Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician with an interest in heat propagation ...

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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, ...