I never understood why everything is built from sine waves...until now! (Fourier Transforms)
846K views · Aug 28, 2026 · Education
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@Mahesh_Shenoy · 1 month ago · pinned
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@sgiri2012 · 1 month ago (edited)
It's literally mind boggling that you've just summarised my entire semester content in a single video.<br><br>Next we want Laplace transforms, who are all wanting the video ?
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@BriceMarnier · 1 month ago (edited)
As an electronics engineer, I'm no stranger to Fourier's theories –learnt the hard way– but I was not expecting such a master piece of pedagogy...<br>Concise and complete, plus some fun facts and humour, beautiful graphics and consistent rhythm... Awesome 👌!
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@jaishkhan7442 · 1 month ago
Mahesh is the real goat man. It's so hard to explain things this intuitively.
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@Smmmile · 1 month ago
Laplace Transform Next!
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@racheltyrellcorp9694 · 1 month ago
There is you and 3Blue1Brown<br>Two sides of the same coin, you exhalted & engaging<br>3B1B a bit more rigorous hence colder<br>But you are linked with those amazing pedagogic skills<br>Thus I love even more to see the same topics treated by both of you ! Such complementarity in style and angle of approach<br>You 2 channels are the best of youtube's "hard" vulgarization on math and physics<br>Thanks A LOT !
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@WiremuLipsham · 1 month ago
Commenting because I don't know how to push the like button twice. Way back in my uni days, Fourier Series/ Transforms was where an interest and competence in maths started to turn into confusion and dismay. Laplace Transforms was the death blow. 30 years later, I remember nothing about Laplace, but hearing the word causes an involuntary shudder. Had my lecturer been Mahesh.... Ah, who am I kidding, it was not my lecturer's fault (entirely). And it wasn't the Bartenders fault either. That was all me.
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@weebgtxload4489 · 4 weeks ago
Nikolas Tesla "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration"
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@sheldonh4341 · 3 weeks ago
Fourier Series = Everything is periodic!<br>Fourier Transform = Everything has INFINITE periods!<br>Laplace Transform = Fxxx the past! Only check whether it is integrable!<br><br>A summary of signal processing. Great work, man.
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@aricwastaken · 1 month ago
Yoooooo, i haven't watched the video yet but when you said the video is gonna be on an interesting topic, i did NOT expect fourier transfrom. You've been my inspiration ever since i got into high school physics, you gave me a new way of studying with intuition instead of blindly remembering formulas because they are "useful". Now i am studying for my bachelor degree in engineering and man I've been hit here with fourier tranforms and laplace transfroms and lagrange multiplier and stuff, all of which i don't understand and i had to go against what i stood for, blindly memorising formula because there weren't many videos on the topics i had to study in bachelors by you. But even if i can understand this one thing, I'll finally know my methods aren't wrong. Because the method you taught me, to study with intuition worked undoubtedly in high school but bachelors is a completely different game for me, there aren't many resources which explain things intuitively and blindly remember is the only option left which I'm not good at, so I've gone from A+s in high school to failing my exams in bachelors. My grades might be terrible right now but i hope someday after i pass, i can become half of what you are and teach students in the way that i wasn't able to.
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@rishikeshchapekar4481 · 4 weeks ago
Its only a matter of time before 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium and Mahesh Sir come together for the ultimate "I never understood <the most over the top abstract asf concept of the universe> until now" video
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@hubertorhant8884 · 4 weeks ago
If you want to dive deeper in Fourier series, I am in. If you want to go for Laplace transform. I am in !!!<br>I've watched a bunch of videos on Fourier series and was not able to grasp the the subject. Now with all the key concepts you so cleverly highlights, it suddenly clicked and find the subject not only amazing but easy to deal with. Thanks a million Mahesh!❤
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