It’s not often one algorithm shapes the entire arc of modern technology, but the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) has done exactly that. Created by researchers at Princeton University and IBM in the early ...
(via Veritasium) The Fast Fourier Transform is used everywhere but it has a fascinating origin story that could have ended the nuclear arms race.
A key algorithm that quietly empowers and simplifies our electronics is the Fourier transform, which turns the graph of a signal varying in time into a graph that describes it in terms of its ...