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With it being Fourier's birthday, we'd have to bring in the Transformers.
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If France became anarchistic, it would probably remain bureaucratic; look up Charles Fourier's model of anarchy.
May 26th, 2007 2007
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Anyone taken undergraduate heat transfer knows this as Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction.
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Fourier's original paper was a bit sloppy, the author having assumed a bit too much about the likely perspicacity of his readers, omitting some explanations and making a number of goofs.
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In it, Thompson was able to apply Fourier's heat flow mathematics to Michael Faraday's electric "lines of force."
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Young Thompson was enamored of Fourier's work, and so when another paper came out by a mathematician named Kelland, which claimed that Fourier's work was inconsistent and full of contradictions, sufficiently so to render his claims invalid, Thompson took up the challenge to refute Kelland.
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The general case is derived by an analysis based on one of Fourier's chapters.
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It served the same purpose for the Saint-Simonians that Fourier's princi - ple did for his followers, which was to provide a social and moral analogue of Newton's law of gravitation.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SANFORD A. LAKOFF 1968
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Fourier's first axiom was: The series distribute the Harmonies.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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These communities will illustrate Fourier's second axiom.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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