List of things named after Siméon Denis Poisson
These are things named after Siméon Denis Poisson (1781 – 1840), a French mathematician.
Physics
- Poisson’s Equations (thermodynamics)
- Poisson’s Equation (rotational motion)
- Hamiltonian mechanics
- Electrostatics
- Optics
- Elasticity
Mathematics
- Poisson algebra
- Poisson manifold
- Poisson bracket, see Hamiltonian mechanics header
- Poisson–Lie group
- Probability theory
- Poisson distribution
- Poisson process
- Poisson sampling
- Poisson regression
- Poisson limit theorem
- Poisson zeros
Mathematical analysis
- Poisson's (differential) equation, Poisson (differential) equation; see Electrostatics header
- Poisson solver, numerical software designed to solve Poisson's differential equation
- Poisson differential operator
- Dirichlet–Poisson problem
- Discrete Poisson equation
- Poisson kernel
- Fourier analysis
- Poisson summation formula (Poisson resummation)
- Wavelet theory
Other
- Poisson (crater) on the Moon
- Collège Denis Poisson[1] in Pithiviers
References
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