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We live in a periodic world. Not only are there the obvious periodicities of the day, the lunar month, and the year, which affect our circadian rhythms, the menstrual cycle, and the seasons, but similar kinds of oscillations can be found on all sorts of scales.
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Sneyd, J., Fewster, R.M., McGillivray, D. (2022). Periodic functions. In: Mathematics and Statistics for Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05318-4_5
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