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    Baron Siméon Denis Poisson FRS FRSE (French: [si.me.ɔ̃ də.ni pwa.sɔ̃]; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician and physicist who worked...
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    equation is named after French mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson. Poisson's equation is Δ φ = f , {\displaystyle \Delta \varphi =f,} where...
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    groups. All of these objects are named in honor of Siméon Denis Poisson. He introduced the Poisson bracket in his 1809 treatise on mechanics. Given two...
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  • as Poisson manifolds, of which the symplectic manifolds and the Poisson–Lie groups are a special case. The algebra is named in honour of Siméon Denis Poisson...
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    events in a given area or volume). The Poisson distribution is named after French mathematician Siméon Denis Poisson (/ˈpwɑːsɒn/; French pronunciation: [pwasɔ̃])...
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  • distribution, under certain conditions. The theorem was named after Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840). A generalization of this theorem is Le Cam's theorem...
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  • partial differential equation named after Siméon Denis Poisson List of things named after Siméon Denis Poisson Poison (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • necessarily identically distributed. The concept is named after Siméon Denis Poisson. In other words, it is the probability distribution of the number...
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  • Poisson algebra). Poisson structures on manifolds were introduced by André Lichnerowicz in 1977 and are named after the French mathematician Siméon Denis...
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  • In mathematics, the Poisson formula, named after Siméon Denis Poisson, may refer to: Poisson distribution in probability Poisson summation formula in Fourier...
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  • are things named after Siméon Denis Poisson (1781 – 1840), a French mathematician. Poisson’s Equations (thermodynamics) Poisson’s Equation (rotational motion)...
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    process and the distribution are named after French mathematician Siméon Denis Poisson. The process itself was discovered independently and repeatedly in...
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  • the original function. The Poisson summation formula was discovered by Siméon Denis Poisson and is sometimes called Poisson resummation. Consider an aperiodic...
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    Poisson is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern highlands of the Moon's near side. It was named after French mathematician Siméon Denis...
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    mathematician Siméon Denis Poisson, known for his work on definite integrals, electromagnetic theory, and probability theory, and after whom the Poisson distribution...
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    Arago spot (redirect from Poisson spot)
    theoretician Siméon Denis Poisson. In 1818 the French Academy of Sciences launched a competition to explain the properties of light, where Poisson was one...
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    Conway–Maxwell–Poisson (CMP or COM–Poisson) distribution is a discrete probability distribution named after Richard W. Conway, William L. Maxwell, and Siméon Denis Poisson...
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  • Pierre-Marie Poisson (1876–1953), French sculptor and medallist Raymond Poisson (1630–1690), French actor and playwright Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)...
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    priority. Siméon Denis Poisson asked him to submit his work on the theory of equations, which he did on 17 January 1831. Around 4 July 1831, Poisson declared...
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    article by the French mathematician, engineer, and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson: Poisson (1808). "Mémoire sur la théorie du son" [Memoir on the theory...
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    in France and studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris under Siméon Denis Poisson. In the War of the Sixth Coalition he was drafted to fight in the...
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  • le Rond d'Alembert, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Siméon Denis Poisson) and viscous flow was explored by a multitude of engineers including...
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    Gauss (1777–1855) – Theorema Egregium Louis Poinsot (1777–1859) Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) – projective geometry...
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  • (English: moment of force) with respect to a point and plane is used by Siméon Denis Poisson in Traité de mécanique. An English translation appears in 1842. In...
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  • (born 1963) Edwin A. Perkins (born 1953) Loren D. Pitt (born 1939) Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (1929–2013) Frank P. Ramsey...
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  • Solicitor-General of the Philippines Simeon North (1765–1852), American gunmaker Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840), French mathematician Simeon Rice (born 1974), American...
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    publication by George Green in 1828, where he extends previous work of Siméon Denis Poisson on electricity and magnetism. The work in mathematical analysis,...
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  • many basic shapes in the 19th century: the rectangular membrane by Siméon Denis Poisson in 1829, the equilateral triangle by Gabriel Lamé in 1852, and the...
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  • set of functionally independent Poisson commuting invariants (i.e., independent functions on the phase space whose Poisson brackets with the Hamiltonian...
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    the works of Pierre Simon Laplace, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Siméon Denis Poisson, and others. The term itself did not come into wide use until the...
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