This scientist laid the groundwork for the development of dimensional analysis and linear programming.
This scientist laid the groundwork for the development of dimensional analysis and linear programming. He accompanied Napoleon on his 1798-1801 Egyptian campaign and on his return was appointed prefect of Isere and later of Rhone, but is better-known for inspiring harmonic analysis by his observation that, with certain constraints, any function can be written as a series of trigonometric functions. FTP, who was this Frenchman whose formulation of heat flow was described in The Analytical Theory of Heat?
This scientist laid the groundwork for the development of dimensional analysis and linear programming.
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier