Jean-Baptiste

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Jean-Baptiste is the French given name of the mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, known for pioneering Fourier analysis and the study of heat conduction.

Aliases (2)

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier ×47
Jean-Baptiste Joseph ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human →
burialPlace	Paris →
countryOfBirth	France →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1768-03-21 →
dateOfDeath	1830-05-16 →
educatedAt	École Polytechnique →
employer	École Polytechnique →
era	18th-century mathematics → 19th-century mathematics →
familyName	Fourier →
fieldOfWork	Fourier analysis → heat conduction → mathematical analysis →
gender	male →
givenName	Jean-Baptiste →
hasGivenName	Jean-Baptiste → Joseph →
hasMiddleName	Joseph →
hasSurname	Fourier →
influenced	development of harmonic analysis → theory of signal processing →
influencedBy	Joseph-Louis Lagrange → Pierre-Simon Laplace →
knownFor	Fourier analysis → Fourier series → Fourier transform → theory of heat conduction →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
memberOf	Académie des sciences → French Academy of Sciences →
nativeLanguage	French →
notableConcept	Fourier series expansion of periodic functions → Fourier transform of functions → Fourier's law of heat conduction →
notableWork	Théorie analytique de la chaleur →
occupation	mathematician → physicist →
participantIn	French Revolution → Napoleon's Egyptian campaign →
placeOfBirth	Auxerre →
placeOfDeath	Paris →
positionHeld	prefect of Isère → professor of analysis and mechanics →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
workedOn	partial differential equations → trigonometric series →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux → Jean-Baptiste Carrier → Jean-Baptiste Colbert → Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau → Jean-Baptiste Greuze → Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier → Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier → Jean-Baptiste Lamarck → Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville → Jean-Baptiste Pigalle → Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin → Joseph Fourier ("Jean-Baptiste Joseph") → Molière →	givenName
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier → Jean-Baptiste Oudry → Joseph Fourier →	hasGivenName