‘Mémoire sur la propagation de la Chaleur dans les corps solides,’ pp. 112-116 in: Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomathique. Paris, tome 1, no. 6, March, 1808.
Paris: Bernard, 1808. First printing, extremely rare, of the discovery of Fourier series, and their application to the mathematical theory of heat, appearing here 14 years before Fourier’s famous Théorie analytique de la chaleur. “This work marks an epoch in the history of both pure and applied mathematics. It is the..... More
Item #5302