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 break ...

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, ...

The Allen Telescope Array, Hat Creek Radio Observatory. Credit: Alexander Pollak. Radio interferometry is a technique in radio astronomy where signals from two or more radio telescopes are combined to ...