Fourier Quote by Lord Kelvin Download Open image “Fourier is a mathematical poem.” — Lord Kelvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fourier Inspirational Love Math Mathematical Mathematics Poetry
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“… Fourier 's great mathematical poem ... { Referring to Joseph Fourier 's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of the precursors to thermodynamics. }” — Anonymous 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 a quantity… — John Robinson Pierce 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 indispensable instrument… — Lord Kelvin 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 in time… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart? — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Another time somebody gave a talk about poetry. He talked about the structure of the poem and the emotions that come with it; he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit. — Charles Williams 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
Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of… — Lord Kelvin 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. Fourier was… — Christine Jennings 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 harmony, disappears… — 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 which we… — Auguste Comte 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 la même… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin 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 in time… — Bruce Hood 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 outdone, and… — William James Copy Share Image
“… Fourier 's great mathematical poem ... { Referring to Joseph Fourier 's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of the precursors to thermodynamics. }” — Anonymous 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 the summation… — 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
Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument… — Lord Kelvin 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. Owen's design… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
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