JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH FOURIER
(Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier)
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This is one of the first written statements that primary causes should be studied by man and not just accepted as mysteries created by God. At the time, all of the sciences and mathematics were considered part of natural philosophy.
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis, and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. The Fourier transform and Fourier's law of conduction are also named in his honour. Fourier is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect.
