Fourier

Proper noun

Fourier

1. A surname from French.
   • Millard’s sketch happened to look a lot like the master plan of Fourierism, one of the most popular secular utopian movements in American history. In the early 1800s, Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, proposed, in a series of jargon-filled writings, a self-sufficient community model called a “phalanx.”2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2022
   • The problem of inversion of the mgf/chf of a sum of lognormals to obtain the CDF/pdf is considered with special reference to methods related to Post Widder technique, Gaussian quadrature and the Fourier series method.2016, N B Chakrabarti, “A Note on a Sum of Lognormals”, in arXiv