Gray, Jeremy (Author)
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a prominent philosopher of science whose fresh and surprising essays are still in print a century later. The first in-depth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments, Henri Poincaré explores all the fields that Poincaré touched, the debates sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society today. Math historian Jeremy Gray shows that Poincaré's influence was wide-ranging and permanent. His novel interpretation of non-Euclidean geometry challenged contemporary ideas about space, stirred heated discussion, and led to flourishing research. His work in topology began the modern study of the subject, recently highlighted by the successful resolution of the famous Poincaré conjecture. And Poincaré's reformulation of celestial mechanics and discovery of chaotic motion started the modern theory of dynamical systems. In physics, his insights on the Lorentz group preceded Einstein's, and he was the first to indicate that space and time might be fundamentally atomic. Poincaré the public intellectual did not shy away from scientific controversy, and he defended mathematics against the attacks of logicians such as Bertrand Russell, opposed the views of Catholic apologists, and served as an expert witness in probability for the notorious Dreyfus case that polarized France. Richly informed by letters and documents, Henri Poincaré demonstrates how one man's work revolutionized math, science, and the greater world
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Christian Gerini;
Jean-Marc Ginoux;
(2013)
Henri Poincaré: A Biography Through the Daily Papers
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Ferdinand Verhulst;
(2012)
Henri Poincaré: Impatient Genius
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Charpentier, Éric;
Ghys, Étienne;
Lesne, Annick;
(2010)
The Scientific Legacy of Poincaré
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Robert DiSalle;
(2014)
Poincaré on the Construction of Space-Time
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Janet Folina;
(2014)
Poincaré and the Invention of Convention
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Antonio A. P. Videira;
(2014)
Poincaré, Indifferent Hypotheses and Metaphysics
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María de Paz;
Robert DiSalle;
(2014)
Poincaré, Philosopher of Science: Problems and Perspectives
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Gerhard Heinzmann;
(2014)
Does the French Connection (Poincaré, Lautman) Provide Some Insights Facing the Thesis That Meta-mathematics Is an Exception to the Slogan That Mathematics Concerns Structures?
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Isabel Serra;
(2014)
Henri Poincaré: A Scientist Inspired by His Philosophy
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Augusto J. Franco Oliveira;
(2014)
Poincaré and the Principles of the Calculus
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Reinhard Kahle;
(2014)
Poincaré in Göttingen
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María Paz;
(2014)
The Third Way Epistemology: A Re-characterization of Poincaré’s Conventionalism
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Granek, Galina;
(2000)
Poincaré's Contributions to Relativistic Dynamics
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João Príncipe;
(2014)
Henri Poincaré: The Status of Mechanical Explanations and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
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Šebesta, Juraj;
(2006)
Lenard's Teacher Virgil Klatt
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Zuidervaart, Huib;
(2013)
Dirk Schoute (1873--1963), chirurg, gedreven organisator, medisch-historisch onderzoeker en ontvanger van Gewina's eerste erepenning
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Etker, Şeref;
(2005)
Salih Zeki---Constructing a Biography for the Mathematician
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Barberousse, Anouk;
(2008)
La valeur de la connaissance approchée. L'épistémologie de l'approximation d'Émile Borel
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Provost, Jean-Pierre;
Bracco, Christian;
(2006)
La Relativité de Poincaré de 1905 et les Transformations Actives
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Laurent Rollet;
(2014)
Portrait of Henri Poincaré as a Young Philosopher: The Formative Years (1860–1873)
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