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Definition of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
1. Noun. French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830).
Generic synonyms: Mathematician, Physicist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Literary usage of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) began the study of the circulation of
heat—then considered a fluid and called caloric—within conductive bodies. ..."
2. The European Journals of William Maclure by William Maclure, John S. Doskey (1988)
"'If indeed it was "Fourier" whom Maclure visited, it is not clear whether it was
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1786-1830), the mathematician and physicist, ..."
3. A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by Walter William Rouse Ball (1908)
"Fourier.1 The first of these French physicists was Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier,
who was bora at Auxerre on March 21, 1768, and died at Paris on May 16, ..."
4. Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor (1911)
"... has been chiefly occupied during the nineteenth century and up to the present
time, we must, I think, trace it back to Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (-). ..."
5. An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Heat Conduction: With by Leonard Rose Ingersoll, Otto Julius Zobel (1913)
"The mathematical theory of heat conduction, historically speaking, is due
principally to Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (-) and was set forth by him in his ..."
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