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Tag Name "Fourier" (6)

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Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.
Bruce Hood
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Fourier is a mathematical poem.
Lord Kelvin
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Educated men - civilized, as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.
Peter Kropotkin
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For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.
John Carroll
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A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.
Paul Halmos
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True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
Richard Hamming