Fourier

[ foor-ee-ey, -ee-er; French foo-ryey ]

noun

1. Fran·çois Ma·rie Charles [f, r, ah, n, -, swa, m, a, -, ree, sh, a, r, l], 1772–1837, French socialist, writer, and reformer.
2. Jean Bap·tiste Jo·seph [zhah, n, b, a, -, teest, zhaw-, zef], 1768–1830, French mathematician and physicist.
3. a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 36 miles (58 km) in diameter.

Fourier

/ furje; ˈfʊərɪˌeɪ /

noun

1. Fourier(François Marie) Charles17721837MFrenchSOCIAL SCIENCE: social reformer ( François Marie ) Charles (ʃarl). 1772–1837, French social reformer: propounded a system of cooperatives known as Fourierism, esp in his work Le Nouveau monde industriel (1829–30)
2. FourierJean Baptiste Joseph17681830MFrenchSCIENCE: mathematicianHISTORY: EgyptologistPOLITICS: administrator Jean Baptiste Joseph (ʒɑ̃ batist ʒozɛf). 1768–1830, French mathematician, Egyptologist, and administrator, noted particularly for his research on the theory of heat and the method of analysis named after him

Fourier

/ fr′ē-ā′,fo̅o̅-ryā′ /

1. French mathematician and physicist who introduced the expansion of periodic functions in the trigonometric series that is now named for him. He also studied the conduction of heat in solid bodies.

Example Sentences

Fourier contributed the foundational insight that not just sound but heat and everything we see and much else could be described as the sum of a series of waves, representing various frequencies and amplitudes.

From MIT Technology Review

Fourier contributed the insight that everything we see could be described as the sum of a series of waves.

From MIT Technology Review

The papers he wrote about his discovery in 1859 and then in 1861—now five years after Foote’s work—did not mention her results, although he cited those of Fourier and others.

From Nautilus

At the heart of their solution is something called a Fourier layer.

From Quanta Magazine

The entire neural network is made of a handful of such Fourier layers.

From Quanta Magazine

Fourier with his phalansteries is quite forgotten, his place being taken by Marx.

From Project Gutenberg

"And also her reverses, my dear M. Fourier," remarked the Comte drily.

From Project Gutenberg

"And you were quite right, my dear M. Fourier," said the Comte affably.

From Project Gutenberg

M. Fourier was wiping the perspiration from his overheated brow.

From Project Gutenberg

But at this suggestion M. Fourier was ready to burst into tears.

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