Fourier
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A French mathematician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who pioneered the analysis of functions as infinite trigonometric series, now known as Fourier analysis.
“The technique was named after fourier, whose groundbreaking work on heat conduction transformed applied mathematics.”
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fou·rier
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