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| | A visual introduction to Fourier Series
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| | We continue our exploration of what numbers are, and where mathematicians keep finding weird ones. In the first three parts we extended the natural numbers in two ways: algebraically and analytically. Those approaches gave overlapping but distinct sets of numbers. This week we combine them to get the complex numbers, and see some hints of why the complex numbers are so useful-and so frustrating.
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| It took me longer than necessary to understand how a rotation transform matrix rotates a vector through three-dimensional space. Not because it's a difficult concept but because it is often poorly explained in textbooks. Even the most explanatory book might derive the matrix for a rotation around one axis (e.g., x) but then present the other two matrices without showing their derivation. I'll explain my own understanding of their derivation in hopes that it will enlighten others that didn't catch on right away.