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“The function ei(kx-ωt) represents a wave that travels at a speed of ω/k, which we have just shown to be equal to -k2. Therefore,…

— Timothy Gowers

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 succeeded in proving a theorem concerning sine waves which astonished his, at first, incredulous contemporaries. He showed that any variation of a quantity…

— John Robinson Pierce

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

— Lord Kelvin

There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre:…

— Edward Kasner

“The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct manner the…

— Anonymous

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

— Niels Bohr

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

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

— Sidney Coleman

“Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why…

— John Archibald Wheeler

The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible…

— Werner Heisenberg

The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

— Swami Vivekananda