What Is the Fourier Transform?(quantamagazine.org)

76 points by jnord 1 year ago | 4 comments

Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics(quantamagazine.org)

109 points by MindGods 1 year ago | 46 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

How Hans Bethe stumbled upon perfect quantum theories(quantamagazine.org)

66 points by abe94 1 year ago | 6 comments

Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories(quantamagazine.org)

23 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 1 comments

How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories(quantamagazine.org)

15 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 1 comments

Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles(adekau.github.io)

61 points by cebert 1 month ago | 7 comments

A blog post explaining the Fourier transform and using rotating vectors (epicycles) to draw a llama outline, covering complex numbers and linear algebra.

A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms(argmin.net)

204 points by mochomocha 13 days ago | 129 comments

Ben Recht's argmin blog post critiquing OpenAI's math repository claim of a faster FFT algorithm, arguing it is more an exploit than a breakthrough.

What is a manifold?(quantamagazine.org)

335 points by isaacfrond 11 months ago | 117 comments

Quanta Magazine explainer on manifolds, the mathematical spaces conceived by Bernhard Riemann that underpin modern geometry and physics.

An animated introduction to Fourier series(andreinc.net)

559 points by gaws 2 years ago | 83 comments

A blog post by Andrei Ciobanu giving an animated, visual introduction to Fourier series, starting from circles and building up to epicycles; part 1 of a series.

Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)(eloquentjavascript.net)

1159 points by vajdagabor 2 years ago | 208 comments

Website for Eloquent JavaScript, Fourth Edition (2024), a free online book by Marijn Haverbeke teaching JavaScript programming.

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)

112 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 49 comments

Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.