| Fourier | French sociologist and reformer who hoped to achieve universal harmony by reorganizing society (1772-1837) |
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| Fourier | French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830) |
| Fourier | analysis of a periodic function into a sum of simple sinusoidal components |
| Fourier | the sum of a series of trigonometric expressions |