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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