Henri Poincaré : a scientific biography / Jeremy Gray.

"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 centu...

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Main Author: Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2013.
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