Joseph Fourier

Person · Open Library

Born

21 March 1768

Died

16 May 1830

Works

26

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Origin

Nova Scotia

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

   · 2016 · cited 40,334x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,569x

3. Naturalistic inquiry

   · 1985 · cited 34,831x

4. When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM

   · 2019 · cited 21,523x

5. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

   · 1985 · cited 19,724x

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Quotes

• “Letter, quoted by Vladimir Dobrushkin, "Biography of Joseph Fourier" & Elena Presitini, The Evolution of Applied Harmonic Analysis (2004) p. 42.”
• “Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study of them being the object of natural philosophy. Heat, like gravity, penetrates every substance of the universe, its rays occupy all parts of space. The object of our work is to set forth the mathematical laws which this element obeys. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics.”
• “Profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries.”
• “The question of terrestrial temperature, one of the most remarkable and difficult in natural philosophy... I have... condensed in a single essay... the results of this theory. The analytical details... I have already published. I was specially desirous of presenting... a complete view of the phenomena and the mathematical relations... between them.”
• “The heat of the earth is derived from three sources...1. ...[S]olar rays; the unequal distribution of which causes diversities of climate.2. ...[T]he common temperature of the planetary spaces; being exposed to the radiation from the innumerable stars which surround the solar system.3. The earth preserves in its interior that primitive heat which it had at the time of the first formation of the planets. ...We will show ...the principle features of these phenomena.”
• “The solar system is situated in a region of the universe, every point of which has a common and constant temperature, determined by the rays of light and heat which proceed from the surrounding stars. This low temperature is a little below that of the polar regions of the earth.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Joseph

Gender

male

Citizenship

France

Place of birth

Auxerre

Place of death

Paris

Occupation

writer

Educated at

Royal Abbey of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre

Languages spoken

French

Award

72 names on the Eiffel Tower

Noble title

baron

Doctoral advisor

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Doctoral student

Claude-Louis Navier

Field of work

African studies

Image

Fourier2.jpg

Work location

Paris

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