But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.
An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform, winding graphs around circles. Supported by viewers: https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown Special thanks ...
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This right here is what we're going to build to, this video: A certain animated approach to thinking about a super-important idea from math: The Fourier transform. For anyone unfamiliar with what that is, my #1 goal here is just for the video to be an introduction to that topic. But even for those of you who are already familiar with it, I still think that there's something fun and enriching about seeing what all of its components actually look like. The central example, to start, is gonna be the classic one: Decomposing frequencies from sound. But after that, I also really wanna show a glimpse of how this idea extends well beyond sound and frequency, and to many seemingly disparate areas of math, and even physics. Really, it is crazy just how ubiquitous this idea is. Let's d...
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This right here is what we're going to build to, this video: A certain animated approach to thinking about a super-important idea from math: The Fourier transform. For anyone unfamiliar with what that is, my #1 goal here is just for the video to be an introduction to that topic. But even for those of you who are already familiar with it, I still think that there's something fun and enriching about seeing what all of its components actually look like. The central example, to start, is gonna be the classic one: Decomposing frequencies from sound. But after that, I also really wanna show a glimpse of how this idea extends well beyond sound and frequency, and to many seemingly disparate areas of math, and even physics. Really, it is crazy just how ubiquitous this idea is. Let's d...
