2. Proper noun. Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician. ¹
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Definition of Poisson
1. a fish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poisson
Literary usage of Poisson
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"M. Poisson was born in 1782; and his whole life may be said to have been ...
Among the other works of M. Poisson may be mentioned his " Researches on ..."
2. A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the by Isaac Todhunter (1873)
"This analytical demonstration is founded on principles like those which M.
Poisson himself employs in the fifth Article of his Memoir Sur la propagation du ..."
3. The Mathematical theory of probabilities and its application to frequency by Arne Fisher (1922)
"CHAPTER XVIII Poisson-CHARLIER FREQUENCY CURVES FOR INTEGRAL VARIATES 134. ...
We are, however, in the present case of the Poisson exponential dealing with ..."
4. Statistics and Science: A Festschrift for Terry Speed by T. P. Speed, Darlene Renee Goldstein (2003)
"Examples include the two-parameter family of Poisson-Dirichlet models derived
from the Poisson process of jumps of a stable subordinator. ..."
5. Theory of Differential Equations by Andrew Russell Forsyth (1906)
"It is known that, if two equations compatible with the original differential
equation have been obtained, the Poisson- Jacobi combination of those equations ..."
6. Cartanian Geometry, Nonlinear Waves, and Control Theory by Robert Hermann (1979)
"Chapter 21 THE Poisson-MOYAL BRACKET AND THE ... the point that a certain amount
of this material takes its most natural form in terms of the “Poisson-t' ..."
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