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Siméon Denis Poisson, an Uncommon card
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 160
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 57,000
Power 160 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Siméon Denis Poisson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Siméon Denis Poisson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He demonstrated that physical problems could suggest new ______ ideas.
Answer
mathematical. He demonstrated that physical problems could suggest new mathematical ideas. From the Siméon Denis Poisson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Paintball. Paintball 86 · Repeating firearm 80 · Joseph Banks 76 · Siméon Denis Poisson 73 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
William Rowan Hamilton. William Rowan Hamilton 72,000 · Siméon Denis Poisson 57,000 · Guido of Arezzo 44,000 · Repeating firearm 34,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Moreover, he predicted the Arago spot in his attempt to disprove the wave theory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
- While his interpretations of physical phenomena were often proven wrong by later researchers, his contributions to mathematics have stood the test of time.
- He demonstrated that physical problems could suggest new mathematical ideas.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Siméon Denis Poisson article was read about 57,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Siméon Denis Poisson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Siméon Denis Poisson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : François-Séraphin Delpech / After Nicolas Eustache Maurin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
