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Henri Poincare, 1912-2012 - Poincare Seminar 2012 (Hardcover)
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Henri Poincare, 1912-2012 - Poincare Seminar 2012 (Hardcover)
Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics, 67
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This thirteenth volume of the Poincare Seminar Series, Henri
Poincare, 1912-2012, is published on the occasion of the centennial
of the death of Henri Poincare in 1912. It presents a scholarly
approach to Poincare's genius and creativity in mathematical
physics and mathematics. Its five articles are also highly
pedagogical, as befits their origin in lectures to a broad
scientific audience. Highlights include "Poincare's Light" by
Olivier Darrigol, a leading historian of science, who uses light as
a guiding thread through much of Poincare 's physics and
philosophy, from the application of his superior mathematical
skills and the theory of diffraction to his subsequent reflections
on the foundations of electromagnetism and the electrodynamics of
moving bodies; the authoritative "Poincare and the Three-Body
Problem" by Alain Chenciner, who offers an exquisitely detailed,
hundred-page perspective, peppered with vivid excerpts from
citations, on the monumental work of Poincare on this subject, from
the famous (King Oscar's) 1889 memoir to the foundations of the
modern theory of chaos in "Les methodes nouvelles de la mecanique
celeste." A profoundly original and scholarly presentation of the
work by Poincare on probability theory is given by Laurent Mazliak
in "Poincare's Odds," from the incidental first appearance of the
word "probability" in Poincare's famous 1890 theorem of recurrence
for dynamical systems, to his later acceptance of the
unavoidability of probability calculus in Science, as developed to
a great extent by Emile Borel, Poincare's main direct disciple; the
article by Francois Beguin, "Henri Poincare and the Uniformization
of Riemann Surfaces," takes us on a fascinating journey through the
six successive versions in twenty-six years of the celebrated
uniformization theorem, which exemplifies the Master's distinctive
signature in the foundational fusion of mathematics and physics, on
which conformal field theory, string theory and quantum gravity so
much depend nowadays; the final chapter, "Harmony and Chaos, On the
Figure of Henri Poincare" by the filmmaker Philippe Worms,
describes the homonymous poetical film in which eminent scientists,
through mathematical scenes and physical experiments, display their
emotional relationship to the often elusive scientific truth and
universal "harmony and chaos" in Poincare's legacy. This book will
be of broad general interest to physicists, mathematicians,
philosophers of science and historians.
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