Mathematician:Siméon-Denis Poisson

Mathematician

French mathematician and physicist best known for his work in probability theory and differential equations.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 21 June 1781 in Pithiviers, France
• Died: 25 April 1840 in Sceaux (near Paris), France

Theorems and Definitions

• Poisson Bracket
• Poisson's Differential Equation
• Poisson Distribution
• Poisson Kernel
• Poisson Process
• Poisson's Ratio

• Euler-Poisson-Darboux Equation (with Leonhard Paul Euler and Jean-Gaston Darboux)

• Poisson Integral
• Poisson Summation Formula

Results named for Siméon-Denis Poisson can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Siméon-Denis Poisson can be found here.

Publications

• 1808: Sur les inégalités des moyens mouvements des planètes
• 1809: Sur le mouvement de rotation de la terre
• 1809: Sur la variation des constantes arbitraires dans les questions de mécanique
• 1811: Traité de mécanique (2 volumes)
• 1812: (9 March): Sur la distribution de l'électricité à la surface des corps conducteurs
• 1837: Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle et matière civile

Also published

• 1808: An edition of Alexis Claude Clairaut's 1743 work: Théorie de la figure de la terre

Also known as

Some sources do not hyphenate: Siméon Denis Poisson.

The word Poisson is French for fish.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Siméon-Denis Poisson": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Poisson, Siméon Denis (1781-1840)
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poisson, Siméon-Denis (1781-1840)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poisson, Siméon-Denis (1781-1840)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Poisson, Siméon-Denis (1781-1840)