Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, 1768-1830. French mathematician who studied the mathematical theory of heat conduction. He established the partial differential equation governing heat diffusion and solved it by using infinite series of trigonometric functions.
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Biography of the scientist from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography.
Biography of the mathematician with links to relevant terms and related links. From the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.
Biography of the mathematician with links to relevant terms.
Biography of the mathematician with links to relevant terms and related links. From the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.
Biography of the mathematician with links to relevant terms.
Biography of the scientist from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography.
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