Fourier Quote by Lord Kelvin

[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...

— Lord Kelvin

“… Fourier 's great mathematical poem ... { Referring to Joseph Fourier 's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of the precursors to thermodynamics. }”

— Anonymous

“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

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

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

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

— David Eugene Smith

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

— John Steinbeck

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

“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

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

— Charles Williams

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

— Paul Halmos