Roman Launch and booster return as seen from the Kennedy Space Center.
Chris Walter
@ChrisWalter.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
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Professor of physics at Duke University. Studies particle physics and cosmology. Works on Super-Kamiokande and also LSST at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. [bridged from fediscience.org/@ChrisWalter on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]
![Two footnotes shown at the bottom of the page in a textbook:
(From Computational Physics by Mark Newman).
7) What with Gaussian quadrature, Gaussian elimination, the Gauss—-Newton method, and now the fast Fourier transform, Gauss seems to have discovered most of computational physics more than a century before the computer was invented.
8) In much of the computational physics literature you will see the fast Fourier transform at- tributed not to Gauss but to the computer scientists James Cooley and John Tukey, who published a paper describing it in 1965 [Cooley, J. W. and Tukey, J. W., An algorithm for the machine calcu- lation of complex Fourier series, Mathematics of Computation 19, 297-301 (1965)]. Although Cooley and Tukey’s paper was influential in popularizing the method, however, it was, unbeknownst to its authors, not the first description of the FFT. Only later did they learn that they’d been scooped by Gauss 160 years earlier.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:skf67sy433fyohixjmw2t3tn/bafkreidiha3ntpydpglckm5hqb7mgh7tq2uflxi5lxsw75vyrieule7zdi)
