List of things named after Siméon Denis Poisson

These are things named after Siméon Denis Poisson (1781 – 1840), a French mathematician.

Physics

Hamiltonian mechanics
Electrostatics
Optics
Elasticity

Mathematics

Probability theory

Mathematical analysis

Fourier analysis
Wavelet theory

Other

References

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