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 century late...
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Gray, Jeremy, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Henri Poincaré : A Scientific Biography / Jeremy Gray. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012] ©2013 1 online resource (608 p.) : 13 halftones. 26 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Essayist -- 2. Poincaré's Career -- 3. The Prize Competition of 1880 -- 4. The Three Body Problem -- 5. Cosmogony -- 6. Physics -- 7. Theory of Functions and Mathematical Physics -- 8. Topology -- 9. Interventions in Pure Mathematics -- 10. Poincaré as a Professional Physicist -- 11. Poincaré and the Philosophy of Science -- 12. Appendixes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 century later. The first in-depth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments, Henri Poincaré explores all the fields that Poincaré touched, the debates sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society today. Math historian Jeremy Gray shows that Poincaré'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 Poincaré conjecture. And Poincaré'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. Poincaré 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 Poincaré demonstrates how one man's work revolutionized math, science, and the greater world. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Science & Technology. MATHEMATICS General. Scientists France Biography. MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691152714 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400844791 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400844791 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400844791.jpg |
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