Joseph Fourier, 1768-1830
Subtitle: a survey of his life and work, based on a critical edition of his monograph on the propagation of heat, presented to the Institut de France in 1807
By: [by] I. Grattan-Guinness, in collaboration with J. R. Ravetz.
Contributors: Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, baron, 1768-1830.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
Subjects: Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, baron, 1768-1830; Heat
Notes: Bibliography: p. [491]-502.
Includes Fourier's original unpublished text of 1807 with title: Théorie de la propagation de la chaleur dans les solides. The first separately published version appeared in 1822 under title: Théorie analytique de la chaleur.