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Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time…

— Bruce Hood

Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument…

— Lord Kelvin

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

— Lord Kelvin

“It appears to me," said the daguerreotypist, smiling, "that Uncle Venner has the principles of Fourier at the bottom of his wisdom; only they…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

— Paul Halmos

“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such…

— Henri Darmon

“A bell cannot tell time, but it can be moved in just such a way as to say twelve o’clock – similarly, a man…

— Daniel Tammet

“No phenomenon directly involving a frequency has yet been detected above approximately 10^12 cycles per second. We only deduce the higher frequencies from the…

— Richard P. Feynman

“For we may remark generally of our mathematical researches, that these auxiliary quantities, these long and difficult calculations into which we are often drawn,…

— Louis Poinsot

“He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered.”

— Alex Bellos

“Time cannot be absolutely defined, and there is an inseparable relation between time and signal velocity.” More”

— Walter Isaacson