Definition of Fourier

1. Noun. French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830).


2. Noun. French sociologist and reformer who hoped to achieve universal harmony by reorganizing society (1772-1837).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fourier

Fouchet's stain
Foule Mudammas
Foulness Island
Founding Father
Founding Fathers
Fountain of Youth
Fouquieria
Fouquieria columnaris
Fouquieria splendens
Fouquieriaceae
Four-Corner
Four Hundred
Fourier (current term)
Fourier cosine series
Fourier series
Fourier sine series
Fourier transfer
Fourier transform
Fourier transforms
Fourierism
Fourierist
Fourierists
Fourierite
Fourierites
Fourteenth Amendment
Fourth

Literary usage of Fourier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Socialism by Thomas Kirkup (1909)
"The socialism of Fourier is in many respects fundamentally different from that of Saint-Simon; in the two schools, in fact, we find the two opposing types ..."

2. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore (1910)
"(b) SOUTHPORT (WISCONSIN) Fourier CLUI The New York Phalanx, Feb. 5, 1844, p. ... That we associate ourselves together to be known as the Fourier Club. and. ..."

3. Economic Development of Modern Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1917)
"The cardinal feature of society as Fourier proposed to reorganise it was to be a division into units, designated phalanges, each consisting of about 400 ..."

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