Oeuvres de Fourier by Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Jean Gast... - 9781108059398

Oeuvres de FourierPublies par les soins de Gaston Darboux\nAuthor(s): Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Jean Gaston Darboux\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108059398, 978-1108059398\nSynopsis\nFollowing the French Revolution, the physicist and mathematician Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier [tel] taught at the cole Normale Suprieure and later succeeded Lagrange at the cole 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 Acadmie des Sciences. These selected works were edited by the mathematician Jean Gaston Darboux [tel] 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.