Bibliography
- Books
- Grattam-Guiness, Ivor:
Joseph Fourier (1768-1830): a survey of his life and work
[The MIT Press, 1972]
- Herivel, John:
Joseph Fourier : The Man and the Physicist
[Clarendon Press, 1975]
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Théorie analytique de la chaleur
[trans. Alexander Freeman (1878); repr. Dover Publications, 1955]
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Men of Mathematics [Simon & Schuster, 1937]
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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
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- Articles
- Other references
- Grattam-Guiness, Ivor & Ravetz, Jerome R.:
Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph
[American Council of Learned Societies Volume V, p93]
- The History of Mathematics site at the University of St. Andrews