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Joseph Fourier

1768 - 1830

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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; French: [fuʁje]; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis, and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. The Fourier transform and Fourier's law of conduction are also named in his honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Fourier has received more than 1,352,215 page views. His biography is available in 115 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 113 in 2019). Joseph Fourier is the 22nd most popular mathematician (down from 18th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from France (down from 116th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Mathematician.

Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician who is most famous for his work in the fields of heat transfer and wave propagation.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Joseph Fourier ranks 22 out of 823. Before him are Pierre-Simon Laplace, John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Henri Poincaré, Diophantus, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. After him are Hero of Alexandria, Luca Pacioli, David Hilbert, Évariste Galois, Pope Sylvester II, and Srinivasa Ramanujan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Joseph Fourier ranks 2. Before him is Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Joseph Bonaparte, François-René de Chateaubriand, Charlotte Corday, Frederick VI of Denmark, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karađorđe, Louis Desaix, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, and Caroline of Brunswick. Among people deceased in 1830, Joseph Fourier ranks 2. Before him is Simón Bolívar. After him are Pope Pius VIII, George IV of the United Kingdom, Adam Weishaupt, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Benjamin Constant, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Antonio José de Sucre, Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Louis Henri, Prince of Condé.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Fourier ranks 140 out of 6,011. Before him are Paul Verlaine (1844), Louis XII of France (1462), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Charles VIII of France (1470), Jean Cocteau (1889), and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717). After him are Louis XI of France (1423), Georges Braque (1882), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Joachim Murat (1767), François Mitterrand (1916), and Georges Seurat (1859).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Joseph Fourier ranks 6. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Henri Poincaré (1854), and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717). After him are Évariste Galois (1811), Pope Sylvester II (938), François Viète (1540), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Sophie Germain (1776), and Gaspard Monge (1746).

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