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A Brief Synopsis
Henri Poincare, or Jules Henri Poincare if you want to be technical, was a French mathematician and mathematical physicist that was dubbed 'one of the greatest' towards the end of the 19t century. With numerous amounts of innovations in geometry, the theory of differential equations, electromagnetism, topology, and the philosophy of mathematics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GItmC9lxeco -
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First Paper Published
'Démonstration nouvelle des propriétés de l'indicatrice d'une surface'. This publication was based on differential geometry. -
Early Achievements and Discoveries
Poincaré was born and raised in Nancy, France. Where he alter studied mathematics at the École Polytechnique in Paris. Continuing his studies further at the Mining School in Caen until finally receiving his doctorates from the University of Paris in 1879. During his student status he discovered new types of complex functions which solved numerous amounts of differential equations. This involved one of his first mainstream applications of non-Euclidean geometry. -
'La Science et l'Hypothès’ Science and Hypothesis
The targeted audience for this book was aimed at non-specialists of the respective fields to include, mathematics, space, physics and nature. In this book, Poincare describes and delves into questions regarding the photo-electric effect. This book inspired Albert Einstein in his writing of the Annus Mirabilis. -
'La Valeur de la Science' The Value of Science
This book was written to address and deal the questions about the philosophy of science. Breaking the book into two parts we have the first part being about the relationship between intuition and logic in mathematics. The second part about the book studies about the link between physics and mathematics. Throughout the book he explains and addresses multiple principles and their difficulties. The conversion of energy, entropy, Newton's Third Law, conservation of mass, and relativity. -
