Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time" video.

In the 1980s I was working at an aerospace and defense firm. Although I was already a senior engineer, I did not have a degree. I was taking classes at night (paid for by my employer). I was using FFTs, and had books on them. I wanted to get a more theoretical background, so I took an advanced calculus class, which was about transforms. When we got to the Fourier transform, I was perplexed. I went to my professor and asked when we would get to the FFT. He looked at me puzzled and said he didn't know what that was (he was a theoretician). Now I was concerned. So, next class I told him it was a fast way to compute the Fourier transform. His response was that such a thing was of no interest to him. At least I was relieved that I was totally crazy.
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