Quotes by Siméon Denis Poisson

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Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist. He obtained many important results, but within the elite Académie des Sciences he also was the final leading opponent of the wave theory of light and was proven wrong on that matter by Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
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The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place. The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases favourable to that event, to the total number of cases fa...

Siméon Denis Poisson

Author Bio

  • NameSiméon Denis Poisson
  • DescriptionMathematician, geometer and physicist
  • BornJune 21, 1781
  • DiedApril 25, 1840
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionMathematician; Astronomer; Physicist
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Copley Medal