Fourier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Fourier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊriˌeɪ/, /ˈfʊriˌər/

Proper noun

Fourier

1. A surname from French.
   • 2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Millard’s sketch happened to look a lot like the master plan of Fourierism, one of the most popular secular utopian movements in American history. In the early 1800s, Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, proposed, in a series of jargon-filled writings, a self-sufficient community model called a “phalanx.”

   • 2016, N B Chakrabarti, “A Note on a Sum of Lognormals”, in arXiv‎^[2]:

     The problem of inversion of the mgf/chf of a sum of lognormals to obtain the CDF/pdf is considered with special reference to methods related to Post Widder technique, Gaussian quadrature and the Fourier series method.

Derived terms

• Fourier stability analysis
• Budan-Fourier theorem
• discrete Fourier transform
• fast Fourier transform
• Fourier analysis
• Fourier-Budan theorem
• Fourier coefficient
• Fourier-Mukai transform
• Fourier series
• Fourier transform
• inverse Fourier transform
• Fourier coefficient

See also

• French mathematician Joseph Fourier.
• French utopian socialist and philosopher Charles Fourier.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.ʁje/

Proper noun

Fourier ?

1. a surname

Derived terms

• transformation de Fourier

See also

• French mathematician Joseph Fourier
• French utopian socialist and philosopher Charles Fourier

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French fourrier, derived from Old French fuerre (“hay; fodder”), from Frankish *fodar, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder”), whence Futter. Doublet of Furier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuˈʁiːɐ̯/

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Noun

Fourier m (strong, genitive Fouriers, plural Fouriere)

1. (Austria, Switzerland, military) quartermaster
2. (Switzerland) quartermaster sergeant (class of rank)

Declension

Declension of Fourier [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Fourier	die	Fouriere
genitive	eines	des	Fouriers	der	Fouriere
dative	einem	dem	Fourier	den	Fourieren
accusative	einen	den	Fourier	die	Fouriere

Further reading

• “Fourier” in Duden online