The Mécanique Physique of Siméon Denis Poisson: The evolution and isolation in France of his approach to physical theory (1800-1840). X: Some perspective on Poisson's contributions to the emergence of mathematical physics (Q792980)

This article is the last of a series of ten articles comprising a printed version of the author's Toronto doctorate of 1978, accompanied by a few small revisions. The nine earlier articles surveyed, in corrigible fashion, some aspects of Poisson's research in mechanics and mathematical physics; in this final one the author covers certain features of Poisson's career, showing the same eclectic and careless uses of secondary literature as earlier. The text concludes with a bibliography for the whole series of articles.