Look up poisson in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Poisson may refer to: Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician Eric Poisson, Canadian physicist...

In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number...

statistics and related fields, a Poisson point process (also known as: Poisson random measure, Poisson random point field and Poisson point field) is a type of...

In materials science and solid mechanics, Poisson's ratio ν (nu) is a measure of the Poisson effect, the deformation (expansion or contraction) of a material...

Poisson's equation is an elliptic partial differential equation of broad utility in theoretical physics. For example, the solution to Poisson's equation...

statistics, Poisson regression is a generalized linear model form of regression analysis used to model count data and contingency tables. Poisson regression...

Baron Siméon Denis Poisson FRS FRSE (French: [si.me.ɔ̃ də.ni pwa.sɔ̃]; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician and physicist who worked...

In mathematics and classical mechanics, the Poisson bracket is an important binary operation in Hamiltonian mechanics, playing a central role in Hamilton's...

In mathematics, and specifically in potential theory, the Poisson kernel is an integral kernel, used for solving the two-dimensional Laplace equation...

a field in mathematics, a Poisson manifold is a smooth manifold endowed with a Poisson structure. The notion of Poisson manifold generalises that of...