Happy birthday Joseph Fourier!

[DrClaude]

Joseph Fourier turned 250 this week: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03389-w

Joyeux anniversaire, M^r Fourier !

 

Happy birthday!

 

[scottdave]

250, wow! I remember the first time I heard of Fourier, was when I was learning about the digital signal processing equipment for our RADAR, when I was in the Navy. The engineer who was teaching us kept mentioning FFT. Finally I asked him what it meant. He told me Fast Fourier Transform, then I had to know what that was. He gave me the brief overview. Later in life, at college: I learned a lot more about Fourier Transforms and DFTs / FFTs

 

[cosmik debris]

spoiler...he's dead!

 

[scottdave]

Nice article. I learned a few things about Fourier that I didn't know.

 

[Psinter]

And just the other day I was discussing with a friend Fourier Transforms.

Bring in the confetti.