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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Biography MathSciNet

Ph.D. École Normale Supérieure

Dissertation:

Mathematics Subject Classification: 33—Special functions

Advisor: Joseph Louis Lagrange

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Plana, Giovanni	École Polytechnique
Dirichlet, Gustav	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	1827	86744

According to our current on-line database, Jean-Baptiste Fourier has 2 students and 86746 descendants.
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