Oeuvres de Fourier - Publiees par les soins de Gaston Darboux (French, Paperback)

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. 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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oeuvres de Fourier 2 Volume Set, Volume 2
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Editors:	Jean Gaston Darboux
Dimensions:	297 x 210 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	660
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-05939-8
Languages:	French
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics Promotions
LSN:	1-108-05939-2
Barcode:	9781108059398

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