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2 unusual facts about Joseph Fourier


John Herivel

Herivel wrote books and articles on Isaac Newton, Joseph Fourier, Christiaan Huygens, and an autobiographical account of his work at Bletchley Park, Herivelismus.

Sine and cosine transforms

They are the forms originally used by Joseph Fourier and are still preferred in some applications, such as signal processing or statistics.


Edward Condon

Condon said he replied: "I believe in Archimedes' Principle, formulated in the third century B.C. I believe in Kepler's laws of planetary motion, discovered in the seventeenth century. I believe in Newton's laws...." and continued with a catalog of scientists from earlier centuries, including the Bernoulli, Fourier, Ampère, Boltzmann, and Maxwell.

Giovanni Carandino

Then, under Lord North government on Ionian Islands, his talent was remarked and he was sent to study mathematics in Ecole polytechnique, under Biot, Cauchy, Poisson and Fourier.

Mathematical analysis

Poisson, Liouville, Fourier and others studied partial differential equations and harmonic analysis.

Société de géographie

The Geographical Society was founded at a meeting, 15 December 1821, in the Paris Hôtel de Ville and among its 217 founders were some of the greatest scientific names of the time: Pierre-Simon Laplace, the Society's first president; Georges Cuvier, Charles Pierre Chapsal, Vivant Denon, Joseph Fourier, Gay-Lussac, Claude Louis Berthollet, Alexander von Humboldt, Champollion, François-René de Chateaubriand among them.


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