Henri Poincaré : A Scientific Biography /

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"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 centur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poincare, Henri > 1854-1912
Poincare, Henri, > 1854-1912.
Scientists.
MATHEMATICS > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Scientists > France > Biography.
France.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The essayist
  • Poincare's career
  • The prize competition of 1880
  • The three body problem
  • Cosmogony
  • Physics
  • Theory of functions and mathematical physics
  • Topology
  • Interventions in pure mathematics
  • Poincare as a professional physicist
  • Poincare and the philosophy of science.

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