Henri Poincaré : a scientific biography

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.
Subjects:
Poincaré, Henri, > 1854-1912.
Poincare, Henri, > 1854-1912.
Poincaré, Henri, > 1854-1912
Poincaré, Henri > 1854-1912
Scientists > France > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
MATHEMATICS > General.
Scientists
France
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The essayist
  • Poincaré's career
  • The prize competition of 1880
  • The three body problem
  • Cosmogony
  • Physics
  • Theory of functions and mathematical physics
  • Topology
  • Interventions in pure mathematics
  • Poincaré as a professional physicist
  • Poincaré and the philosophy of science.

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