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Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph - Mathematical & Statistical Sciences

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Shaun Rezaiefard<br />

MATH 4010<br />

he passed. During the course of his career <strong>Fourier</strong> wrote several papers on statistics, but<br />

his lifelong love was the theory of algebraic equations on which he had just completed<br />

the manuscript of a book, Analyse des equations determinees, and a lengthy memoir<br />

when he died. <strong>Fourier</strong> was buried in the eighteenth division of the cemetery of Pere<br />

Lachaise. He belongs to a select group of mathematicians whose work is so fundamental<br />

that their names have become adjectives in every civilized language.

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