Oeuvres de Fourier: Volume 2

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 scienti...

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Beteilige Person: Fourier, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph 1768-1830
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Darboux, Gaston 1842-1917
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Französisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. Mathematics
Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139568159
Zusammenfassung: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. These selected works were edited by the mathematician Jean Gaston Darboux (1842-1917) and published in two volumes between 1888 and 1890. Volume 2 contains several extraordinary contributions: the first paper to address the question of why the earth's surface is warm (which we now call the greenhouse effect), the first paper to address the cooling of the earth's interior (still a major research topic) and the first paper on optimisation under linear constraints, along with the results on roots of polynomials which first made Fourier's reputation.
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 636 Seiten)
ISBN:9781139568159