Fourier Transforms and the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self

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Joseph Fourier discovered the extraordinary fact that some functions can be written as an infinite sum of harmonics. The Fourier Transform is an extension of this initial discovery, and is a highly used technique in engineering, physics and many other disciplines. The crux of it is this:

You can decompose a signal (a function of time) into its component frequencies