In 1822, French mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptise Joseph Fourier published the treatise Théorie analytique de la chaleur, or The Analytical Theory of Heat. In this treatise, Fourier ...

Discovery reshapes our understanding of heat transfer in extreme materials, with implications for inertial confinement fusion and high-energy-density science ...

We equate clock rate with speed, which is only part of the story. Almost two hundred years ago polymath Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier showed that any periodic function can be expressed as the sum of ...