Siméon Denis Poisson Scientist

Siméon Denis Poisson (21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840), was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist. He obtained many important results, but within the elite Académie des Sciences he also was the final leading opponent of the wave theory of light and was proven wrong on that matter by Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

Personal facts

Siméon Denis Poisson
Birth dateJune 21, 1781
Birth place
Pithiviers , Loiret , Kingdom of France , France , Orléanais
Nationality
France
Date of deathApril 25, 1840
Place of death
France , July Monarchy , Sceaux Hauts-de-Seine
Education
École Polytechnique
Known for
Poisson bracket
Poisson summation formula
Most probable number
Arago spot
Poisson kernel
Poisson distribution
Poisson process
Poisson's ratio
Poisson regression
Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation
Poisson's equation
Poisson algebra

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
doctoral student
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Field of study
Mathematics
notable student

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External resources

  1. http://books.google.com/books?id=lksn7QwUZsQC&dq=Poisson+mechanics&as_brr=1&hl=en