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What blows my mind is that Babylonians knew about Fourier transform. What was humanity doing for like 3000 years?
by adamnemecek 6y ago
What blows my mind is that Babylonians knew about Fourier transform. What was humanity doing for like 3000 years?
- knolax 6y agoI didn't see anything about fourier transforms in TFA? Do you have links?
- Koshkin 6y agoI too got curious, but the only thing that I have found is this paper from the University of Babylon: http://www.uobabylon.edu.iq/eprints/paper_2_29545_76.pdf http://www.uobabylon.edu.iq/eprints/paper_2_29545_76.pdf
- adamnemecek 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics
- Kednicma 6y agohttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0310126 https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0310126 is an interesting walkthrough of how they might have computed some lunar calendars.