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Joseph Fourier

Born 250 years ago, Joseph Fourier laid the mathematical foundations for much modern data analysis.

When you listen to digital music, the harmonies and chords that you hear have probably been reconstructed from a file that stored them as components of different frequencies, broken down by a process known as Fourier analysis.

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