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Family
Who helped him along the way
What professions did he work in
Success and work
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June 21, 1781
When was Siméon born?
100
Four children
How many children does he have?
100
Lagrange
Who inspired him to look at math?
100
An astronomer
What Profession did he work for at the Bureau des Longitudes?
100
He wrote a book further explaining from his successors formulas and reasonings on how the planets orbit with disturbing forces
What did he have to do with helping Laplace mathmitise the planetary orbits
200
April 25, 1840
When did Siméon die?
200
He was only 8 years of age when the French Revolution started, when his father left for war.
When did the French Revolution start in his life?
200
Pierre Simon Laplace
Who inspired Poisson to take interest in mathematics?
200
Professor of rational machanics
What Profession did he work for at the Faculté des sciences de Paris?
200
He corrected him on his second order partial differential equations for potential, today named Poissons equation
What extensions did Poisson make to laplaces equations
300
His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower
How famous was he
300
His father was a president of a French district and very valued.
How important was Siméon senior, Denis' father?
300
François Jean Dominique Arago
Who averted Poissons government disgrace in 1830?
300
Geometer, succeeding Pierre-Simon Laplace
What Profession did he work for at the Bureau des longitudes
300
In 1812 Poisson discovered that lap laces equation is vivid only outside of a solid rigorous proof for masses with variable density
What did Poisson find about lap laces equations?
400
A medical career
What was Siméon supposed to go to school for, but instead went for mathematics?
400
His family wanted him to have a medical career so he could earn money for them and be useful to them but it gravitated him towards math.
What Started Denise's interest in mathematics?
400
Nicolas léonard Sadi Carnot Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
What now famous people did poisson teach?
400
Fellow of the royal society, a very high and rare honor
What Profession did he work for at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
400
Poisson wrote a series of memoirs on definite integral st hat paved the way for researchers Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Bernhard Riemann
What Helps others?
500
He has published 4 and one of them is an autobiography
Has he published any books?
500
When his father took him out of the university for a medical profession he was listening to a math lecture as he passed the room
What Increased the interest in math
500
Michel Chasles Joseph Liouville
What Are some famous doctoral students he also studied with?
500
Councilor and examiner
What Profession did he work for at the École Polytechnique?
500
Poisson wrote the memoirs so others can see all of the steps he took to get there and what he did to get the answer and so others could correct his work later on like he did to Laplace and Lagrange
Why did he write the memoirs?