Poisson distribution formula
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Siméon Poisson | |
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Siméon Denis Poisson | |
| Born | June 21, 1781 |
| Died | April 25, 1840 |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École Polytechnique |
| Academic advisor | Joseph Louis Lagrange |
| Notable students | Michel Chasles |
| Religious stance | atheism |
Siméon-Denis Poisson (June 21, 1781 – April 25, 1840) was a Frenchmathematician, geometer, and physicist whose mathematical skills enabled him to compute the distribution of electrical charges on the surface of conductors. He extended the work of his mentors, Pierre Simon Laplace and Joseph Louis Lagrange, in celestial mechanics by taking their results to a higher order of accuracy. He was also known for his work in probability.
Biography
Childhood
Poisson was born in Pithiviers, a village just outside of Paris. His father, Simeon Poisson was a jurist. His mother was listed by his biographer and fellow scientist, Francois Arago, as mademoiselle Franchetere.[1] One story from his early years has it that a caretaker used to hang him from a nail so that she could perform errands wit
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Siméon Denis Poisson
Siméon Denis Poisson ( 21 June 1781 in Pithiviers - 25 April 1840 in Sceaux, near Paris) was a Frenchmathematician and physicist. From 1798 he studied mathematics at the École Polytechnique, where he met Pierre-Simon Laplace and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. In 1802 he became professor, in 1806 he took the position Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier had before him. Napoleon sent Fourier to Grenoble. Poisson was a disciple of Laplace. Poisson worked on the mathematical bases of wave theory, acoustics, elasticity, electricity and heat. He was also interested in the electric properties of solids. In 1812, he published his extension of Laplace's equation, which allowed its use for electric charge at the surface of solids. In the year 1818, he predicted the existence of a phenomenon called the Poisson spot, in the case that light should have the character of a wave. Poisson thought that was not the case and that it had the character of particles. He had long discussions with Augustin-Jean Fresnel, who thought that light was indeed a wave. This discussion only ended when Fr
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Siméon Denis Poisson (1781 - 1840)
From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
Siméon Denis Poisson, born at Pithviers on June 21, 1781, and died at Paris on April 25, 1840, is almost equally distinguished for his applications of mathematics to mechanics and to physics. His father had been a private soldier, and on his retirement was given some small administrative post in his native village; when the revolution broke out he appears to have assumed the government of the place, and, being left undisturbed, became a person of some local importance. The boy was put out to nurse, and he used to tell how one day his father, coming to see him, found that the nurse had gone out, on pleasure bent, having left him suspended by a small cord attached to a nail fixed in the wall. This, she explained, was a necessary precaution to prevent him from perishing under the teeth of the various animals and animalculae that roamed the floor. Poisson used to add that his gymnastic efforts carried him incessantly from one side to the
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