Following the French Revolution, the physicist and mathematician
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) taught at the Ecole
Normale Superieure and later succeeded Lagrange at the Ecole
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 Academie des Sciences. Thanks to his
substantial contributions to the field, Fourier's name has passed
as an adjective into the mathematical vocabulary of every major
language. These selected works were edited by the mathematician
Jean Gaston Darboux (1842-1917) and published in two volumes
between 1888 and 1890. Volume 1 is given over entirely to the
immortal Theorie analytique de la chaleur (1822), from which the
world learnt about the heat equation and the series which bears
Fourier's name.
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