Joseph Fourier is Still Transforming Science

Key Words: 250 years anniversary

Yesterdays: Fourier discovered Heat is a wave , Fourier Series, Fourier Transformation, Signal processing…
Today: IT imaging JPEG compression, Wavelets, 3G/4G Telecommunications, Gravitational waves …
Friends / bosses: Napoleon, Monge… Egypt Expedition with Napoleon Army.
Taught at the newly established Military Engineering University “Ecole Polytechnique”.
Scientific Research: Short period but intense.
Before Fourier died (wrapped himself in thick carpet in hot summer), he was reviewing another young Math genius Evariste Galois’s paper on “Group Theory”.