Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
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Mathematician who cracked heat transfer through Fourier series and got the Fourier transform named after him. Also the first to describe the greenhouse effect, back when nobody was worried about it yet.
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre, Burgundy 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. Fourier is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect.
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