[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“ Derrière la série de Fourier , d'autres séries analogues sont entrées dans la domaine de l'analyse; elles y sont entrees par… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“Fourier succeeded in proving a theorem concerning sine waves which astonished his, at first, incredulous contemporaries. He showed that any variation of… — John Robinson Pierce Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be… — William James Copy Share Image
Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
“… Fourier 's great mathematical poem ... { Referring to Joseph Fourier 's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
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