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Siméon-Denis Poisson

was born 243 years ago

21 June 1781

Siméon-Denis Poisson worked on definite integrals and Fourier series. This was the foundation of later work in this area by Dirichlet and Riemann.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Poisson/