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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis, and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
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Substantiating claimed Fourier quote about “an arbitrarily capricious graph”
The following quote (in English) is fairly widely attributed to Fourier, but I can't substantiate it. … However, I can't find any text written by Fourier that is a close match to the claimed quote. Anyone have a solid reference (in any language)? …
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Substantiating claimed Fourier quote about “an arbitrarily capricious graph”
I think the conclusion here is that there is no proof that the claimed Fourier quote is an actual Fourier quote (in any language). However,
(1) Absence of proof is not proof of absence. … (Fourier (1822), §219, page 184, translation by Alexander Freeman). …