Benjamin Wandelt
@bwandelt
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Professor of Astrophysics at Sorbonne University, Paris. Cosmology, Physics, Astro, AI/ML, Stats, Computation, Maths belong to everyone. Opinions are my own.
Paris, France & New York, NY
Joined October 2008
@VergaraLautaro The pictured wall is not that wall. Leiden preserved the original wall (which was behind a sliding blackboard in Ehrenfest’s house) and moved it to the department. Lecturers giving the “Colloquium Ehrenfestii” are still invited to sign it. I did in 2014.
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@cphoffmann Did you read the article? Paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 give exactly the information you claim they don’t.
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@rl_keith @camruined that’s precisely the reason why it should be included in the sticker price
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Oldies but goldies: Cooley, James W.; Tukey, John W., An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series, 1965. Showed how to compute the discrete Fourier transform in n*log(n) operations. Used (almost) everywhere.
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The most amazing fact is that Gauss discovered the Fast Fourier Transform before Fourier discovered the Fourier Transform
@Erickschultz11 @PhysInHistory What Cooley and Tukey realized after their famous paper came out was that Gauss had scooped them by 100+ years when his FFT algorithm was discovered. And there were other forgotten FFT precursors after Gauss with similar approaches.
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Obviously a generalization. But may explain why many physics ideas had major impact on CS, ML, and AI
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RT @JohnsHopkins: Johns Hopkins University physicist helped create a new interactive visual that depicts everything on the planet Earth. Wi…
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RT @imperialcollege: Second in the world 🥈 First in the UK and Europe 🥇 We are so proud of #OurImperial community for this brilliant…
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