Henri Poincaré : : A Scientific Biography /

Henri Poincaré : : A Scientific Biography / / Jeremy Gray.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Gray, Jeremy,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (608 p.) :; 13 halftones. 26 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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