Jean baptiste joseph fourier biography of abraham
Jean baptiste joseph fourier biography of abraham
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- This article is about the French mathematician and physicist. For the utopian socialist, see Charles Fourier.
Joseph Fourier | |
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Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier | |
| Born | March 21, 1768 |
| Died | May 16, 1830 Paris, France |
| Residence | France |
| Nationality | French |
| Field | Mathematician, physicist, and historian |
| Institutions | École Normale École Polytechnique |
| Alma mater | École Normale |
| Academic advisor | Joseph Lagrange |
| Notable students | Gustav Dirichlet Giovanni Plana Claude-Louis Navier |
| Known for | Fourier transform |
| Religious stance | Roman Catholic |
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 – May 16, 1830) was a French mathematician, physicist and government administrator during the reign of Napoleon who is best known for his study of heat conduction, and for using series of trigonometric functions, now called Fourier series, to solve difficult mathematical problems.
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