Integral Transforms

Integral transforms are the most rarefied of analyses – only used by a subset of engineers and computer scientists; laboured over by many an undergraduate, usually with the accompanying moans; yet every computer, every electronic circuit is an incomprehensible jumble of wires without knowledge of integral transforms. The most common, the Fourier transform, is estimated to be the algorithm that is most computed in the world but what of Laplace and z-transforms? This lecture will explain without using daunting mathematics.

A lecture by Richard Harvey

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:

[charleshebson]

Mr. Mosley - from Downton Abbey to Gresham College. Well done! Actually, I enjoyed this. This also explains why I am a Civil Engineer and not Electrical.

[douglasstrother]

Check out "The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science" ~ Basil Mahon
Heaviside was English.

[cdgrilleesteemservice]

Please fix the spelling in thumbnail.
Intergral?

[billynomates]

and the nice thing about v e to the st is that it spells vest.
also, it is probably wiser to engage the radiologist in discrete fourier transforms than it is to regale the traffic sergeant with the heisenberg uncertainty principle. 🙂

[nHans]

I'm an engineer, so I understood everything ... except why you didn't use the resistor symbol —ww— to represent the resistor. 🤔

[ferartdesign]

Appallingly bad. The speaker starts by saying how challenging integral transforms are, then descends into a perfectly arcane, obscure and narrowly focused technical lecture that demonstrates how transforms are used in electronics, not what they are. Sadly Richard is a perfect example of why mathematics is so misunderstood by the general community

[matthewkelly]

Who thought this was an appropriate lecture? This isn't what people want to see.