He resigned his post as prefect of Grenoble during NapoleonÕs Hundred Days campaign, and died in 1830 of a disease he picked up in Egypt.
He resigned his post as prefect of Grenoble during NapoleonÕs Hundred Days campaign, and died in 1830 of a disease he picked up in Egypt. The son of a tailor, he narrowly escaped the guillotine during the Revolution, and went on to achieve scientific fame for his statement of a law which states that the heat flux through a uniform solid is given by the product of thermal conductivity and the temperature gradient. FTP, name this mathematician, who showed that any arbitrarily repeating function may be represented by the type of series named for him.
He resigned his post as prefect of Grenoble during NapoleonÕs Hundred Days campaign, and died in 1830 of a disease he picked up in Egypt.
Jean Baptiste {Joseph} or Baron {Fourier}