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Reading mathematics, constructing physics: Fourier and his readers, 1822-1850 (1995)

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Description “What we need to do is examine Fourier's work [on the conduction of heat] in light of the standards of early 19th-century mathematics, then we see how Fourier was read by his contemporaries...”


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Authors & Contributors
Takata, Seiji
Yoshida, Haruyo
Annaratone, Silvia
Charbonneau, Louis
Dahan Dalmedico, Amy
Dhombres, Jean G.
Journals
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Bibliothèque Nationale
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Physics
Telegraphs; telephones
Mathematical analysis
Functions (mathematics)
History of philosophy of science
People
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Biot, Jean-Baptiste
Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite
Cauchy, Augustin Louis
Comte, Auguste
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
France
Great Britain
England
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