Meanings
- A surname from French.
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 arXiv1 more example
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
Origin
- FrenchFourier
- EnglishFourier
Borrowed from French Fourier.
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