Today’s episode covers two tales of human ingenuity from different points in time – The Loretto Chapel staircase, and the Discrete Cosine Transform developed by Nasir Ahmed. We learn that there is evidence all around us, and from all points in human history, that our incredible brains can create real-life miracles. 

SHOW NOTES:

Nasir Ahmed’s Books:

·       Orthogonal Transforms for Digital Signal Processing

·       Discrete Time Signals and Systems

SOURCES:

https://www.lorettochapel.com/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretto_Chapel 

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a35539211/who-is-nasir-ahmed-esther-true-story/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Ahmed_(engineer) 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fJ9_Og0AAAAJ&hl=en 

https://dblp.org/pid/60/3286-1.html 

https://meaww.com/nasir-ahmed-esther-love-story-real-life-this-is-us-genius-indian-engineer-dct-jpg-file 

https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/Multimedia/node231.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform 

https://squidarth.com/rc/math/2018/06/24/fourier.html 

https://news.yahoo.com/incredible-true-story-behind-nasir-000000344.html 

https://people.com/tv/this-is-us-nasir-ahmed-pearsons-births-covid/