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)
 * Schrödinger–Poisson equation
 * Vlasov–Poisson equation


 * Hamiltonian mechanics
 * Poisson bracket


 * Electrostatics
 * Poisson equation
 * Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation
 * Poisson–Boltzmann equation
 * Screened Poisson equation


 * Optics
 * Poisson's spot


 * Elasticity
 * Poisson's ratio

Mathematics

 * Dirichlet–Poisson problem
 * Poisson algebra
 * Poisson superalgebra
 * Poisson boundary
 * Poisson bracket, see Hamiltonian mechanics header
 * Poisson games
 * Poisson manifold
 * Poisson ring
 * Poisson supermanifold
 * Poisson–Charlier polynomials
 * Poisson-Hopf algebra
 * Poisson–Mellin–Newton cycle
 * Poisson–Lie group


 * Probability theory
 * Boolean-Poisson model
 * Poisson bootstrap
 * Poisson distribution
 * Compound Poisson distribution
 * Conditional Poisson distribution
 * Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution
 * Displaced Poisson distribution
 * Geometric Poisson distribution
 * Poisson binomial distribution
 * Poisson clumping
 * Super-Poissonian distribution
 * Poisson process
 * Compound Poisson process
 * Mixed Poisson process
 * Poisson sampling
 * Poisson scatter theorem
 * Poisson random measure
 * Poisson-type random measure
 * Poisson regression
 * Fixed-effect Poisson model
 * 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
 * Poisson integral formula
 * Poisson–Jensen formula


 * Fourier analysis
 * Poisson summation formula (Poisson resummation)


 * Wavelet theory
 * Poisson wavelet

Computer science

 * Poisson disk
 * Poisson image editing

Other

 * Advanced Poisson-Boltzmann Solver
 * Poisson (crater) on the Moon
 * Collège Denis Poisson in Pithiviers