Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier

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French mathematician French physicist human mathematician physicist scientific book

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist best known for pioneering the theory of heat conduction and developing Fourier series, which laid the foundations of modern Fourier analysis.

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instanceOf	French mathematician → French physicist → human → mathematician → physicist → scientific book →
author	Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier →
birthDate	1768-03-21 →
birthPlace	Auxerre, France →
contributedTo	development of partial differential equations → theory of trigonometric series →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
deathDate	1830-05-16 →
deathPlace	Paris, France →
educatedAt	École Normale (Paris) → École Polytechnique →
familyName	Fourier →
fieldOfWork	harmonic analysis → heat transfer → mathematical physics → mathematics →
fullName	Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier →
gender	male →
givenName	Jean-Baptiste →
influenced	harmonic analysis → heat equation theory → signal processing →
knownFor	Fourier analysis → Fourier series → Fourier transform concepts → theory of heat conduction →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
memberOf	Académie des sciences → French Academy of Sciences → Royal Society →
notableWork	Théorie analytique de la chaleur →
occupation	civil servant → mathematician → physicist → professor →
participatedIn	French Revolution → Napoleon's Egyptian campaign →
positionHeld	perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences → prefect of Isère →
publicationDate	1822 →
servedAs	scientific advisor in Egypt →
taughtAt	École Polytechnique →
wasCompanionOf	Napoleon Bonaparte →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Fourier analysis ("Joseph Fourier") → Fourier analysis → Fourier series → Fourier transform → Fourier's law of heat conduction ("Joseph Fourier") →	namedAfter
Théorie analytique de la chaleur → Théorie analytique de la chaleur ("Joseph Fourier") → Théorie analytique de la chaleur →	author
Bernhard Riemann ("Joseph Fourier") → James David Forbes ("Joseph Fourier") →	influencedBy
Commission des Sciences et des Arts ("Jean-Baptiste Fourier") → Commission des Sciences et des Arts ("Joseph Fourier") →	notableMember
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier ("Fourier") →	familyName
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier →	fullName
Théorie analytique de la chaleur →	hasAuthorFullName
Fourier analysis →	historicalFigure
Pierre-Simon Laplace ("Joseph Fourier") →	influenced
Fourier →	notableBearer