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Henri Poincare - A Scientific Biography (Paperback)
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Henri Poincare - A Scientific Biography (Paperback)
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A comprehensive look at the mathematics, physics, and philosophy of
Henri Poincare Henri Poincare (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
Poincare explores all the fields that Poincare touched, the debates
sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries
still contribute to society today. Math historian Jeremy Gray shows
that Poincare'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 Poincare conjecture. And Poincare'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. Poincare 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 Poincare demonstrates how one man's work
revolutionized math, science, and the greater world.
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