Article ID: CBB001210329

On the Intellectual Heritage of Henri Poincaré (2012)

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Poincaré's understanding of how mathematics grows over time was informed by the theory of evolution by natural selection and Mach's economy of thought. According to Poincaré, mathematics is neither created nor discovered but cultivated as part of our intellectual inheritance. This paper is based on a lecture delivered at the joint meeting of the BSHM and CSHPM at Trinity College, Dublin, 2011. The title echoes The mathematical heritage of Henri Poincaré (1983) a collection of essays edited by Felix Browder.

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Authors & Contributors
Gray, Jeremy
Wang, Chang
Ji, Lizhen
Christian Gerini
Duarte, German A.
Ferdinand Verhulst
Concepts
Mathematics
Biographies
Mathematicians
Physics
Algebraic topology
Topology
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
France
Canada
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