Celebrating more than 200 years of emergent patterns

and the hidden work of Sophie Germain

from "Die Akustik" by Ernst Chladni  [image source: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/booksonline] => nothing phoolish about Fourier coefficients! Recommended reading: "From Euler, Ritz, and Galerkin to Modern Computing" By M. Gander and G. Wanner, SIAM Vol. 54, No. 4 (2012) "Images of sound" by S.Morris and L. Sharman [http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/nonlinear/preprints/idea_s02_02-morris-sharman.pdf] DLW