Oeuvres de Fourier: Publiées Par Les Soins De Gaston Darboux: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) - Softcover

Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108059384 ISBN 13: 9781108059381

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Following the French Revolution, the physicist and mathematician Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) taught at the École Normale Supérieure and later succeeded Lagrange at the École Polytechnique. He was promoted to administrative positions under Napoleon, but continued to pursue his scientific interests. From 1822 until his death he served as the permanent secretary for mathematical sciences at the Académie des Sciences. Thanks to his substantial contributions to the field, Fourier's name has passed as an adjective into the mathematical vocabulary of every major language. These selected works were edited by the mathematician Jean Gaston Darboux (1842–1917) and published in two volumes between 1888 and 1890. Volume 1 is given over entirely to the immortal Théorie analytique de la chaleur (1822), from which the world learnt about the heat equation and the series which bears Fourier's name.

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Book Description:

These selected works by French physicist and mathematician Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) were published in two volumes in 1888–90. Volume 1 is given over entirely to the immortal Théorie analytique de la chaleur (1822), from which the world learnt about the heat equation and the series which bears Fourier's name.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1108059384
• ISBN 13: 9781108059381
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 596