Joseph Liouville was a French mathematician who worked on a number of different fields in mathematics, including number theory, complex analysis, and mathematical physics. Many mathematical concepts a
Liouville in 1868
Title page of the first volume of Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées in 1836.
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electr
Joseph Liouville
…fonctions en séries de sinus et de cosinus, dont on fait usage dans un grand nombre de questions de Mécanique et de Physique (1836) Doctoral advisor Siméon Denis Poisson Louis Jacques Thénard Doctoral students Eugène Charles Catalan Nikolai Bugaev Other notable students Charles Hermite Joseph Liouville ( LEE-oo-VIL…
Siméon Denis Poisson
The name of Poisson (first from the right) inscribed on the Eiffel Tower
Poisson's 1804 portrait by E. Marcellot, now in the collection of the École Polytechnique.
Poisson's equations for electricity (top) and magnetism (bottom) in SI units on the front cover of an undergraduate textbook.