Joseph Fourier

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joseph Fourier
Occupation	Mathematician
Date Of Birth	Mar 21, 1768(1768-03-21)
Age	256
Date Of Death	May 16, 1830
Birthplace	Auxerre
Country	France
Birth City	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Horoscope	Pisces

Joseph Fourier Biography

Joseph Fourier is one of the most popular and richest Mathematician who was born on March 21, 1768 in Auxerre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. French mathematician, physicist and mathematician who initiated the study of Fourier Series and its application to the problem of vibrations and heat transfer. He also identified that greenhouse effects.

He was with He went with Napoleon Bonaparte on his Egyptian expedition in 1798, and was made governor of Lower Egypt. on his Egyptian expedition in 1798 and was elected the governor for the region of Lower Egypt.

He was the son of a tailor working in Auxerre. His first marriage had him with three kids.

Joseph Fourier Net Worth

Joseph Fourier is one of the richest Mathematician from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joseph Fourier 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a member of his local Revolutionary Committee during the French Revolution and was briefly imprisoned in his time in the Reign of Terror.

He was elected as a non-native member to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1830.

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Top Facts about Joseph Fourier

1. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist.
2. He is best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and Fourier analysis.
3. Fourier was born in Auxerre and orphaned at the age of nine, but was educated by the Benedictine Order of the Convent of St. Mark.
4. He accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte on his Egyptian expedition in 1798.
5. He published his work on heat flow in The Analytical Theory of Heat in 1822.
6. He claimed that any function of a variable, whether continuous or discontinuous, can be expanded in a series of sines of multiples of the variable.
7. He proposed his partial differential equation for conductive diffusion of heat.
8. He was the first to propose the concept of dimensional homogeneity in equations.
9. He proposed the concept of the greenhouse effect.
10. He never married and died in Paris in 1830.
11. He left an unfinished work on determining and locating real roots of polynomials, which was edited by Claude-Louis Navier and published in 1831.
12. Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble was named after him.
13. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
14. His theorem on real roots of polynomials states that a polynomial with real coefficients has a real root between any two consecutive zeros of its derivative.
15. François Budan, had published independently a theorem very close to Fourier’s theorem.