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Epicycles, complex Fourier and Homer Simpson's orbit (2018x8)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Tem 06, 2018

Today’s video was motivated by an amazing animation by Santiago Ginnobili of a picture of Homer Simpson being drawn using epicycles. This video is about making sense of the mathematics epicycles. Highlights include the surprising shape of the Moon’s orbit around the Sun, instructions on how you can make your own epicycle drawings, and a crash course of complex Fourier series to make sense of it all.