Poisson may refer to:
People
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Siméon Denis Poisson
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson (, ; ; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity ...
, French mathematician
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Eric Poisson, Canadian physicist
Places
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Poissons, a commune of Haute-Marne, France
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Poisson, Saône-et-Loire, a commune of Saône-et-Loire, France
Other uses
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Poisson (surname), a French surname
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Poisson (crater), a lunar crater named after Siméon Denis Poisson
*The French word for
fish
A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic animal, aquatic, Anamniotes, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fish fin, fins and craniate, a hard skull, but lacking limb (anatomy), limbs with digit (anatomy), digits. Fish can ...
See also
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Adolphe-Poisson Bay, a body of water located to the southwest of Gouin Reservoir, in La Tuque, Mauricie, Quebec
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Poisson distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution () is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time if these events occur with a known const ...
, a discrete probability distribution named after Siméon Denis Poisson
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Poisson's equation
Poisson's equation is an elliptic partial differential equation of broad utility in theoretical physics. For example, the solution to Poisson's equation is the potential field caused by a given electric charge or mass density distribution; with t ...
, a partial differential equation named after Siméon Denis Poisson
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List of things named after Siméon Denis Poisson
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Poison (disambiguation)
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