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Poincaré was a constant interpreter (and sometimes friendly critic) of Lorentz's theory. Poincaré as a philosopher was interested in the "deeper meaning". Thus he interpreted Lorentz's theory and in so doing he came up with many insights that are now associated with special relativity.
Jul 13, 2024 · Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians and mathematical physicists at the end of 19th century. He made a series of profound innovations in geometry, the theory of differential equations, electromagnetism, topology, and the philosophy of mathematics.
Sep 3, 2013 · Henri Poincaré was a mathematician, theoretical physicist and a philosopher of science famous for discoveries in several fields and referred to as the last polymath, one who could make significant contributions in multiple areas of mathematics and the physical sciences. This survey will focus on Poincaré’s philosophy.
Poincaré introduced the fundamental group (or first homotopy group) in his paper of 1894 to distinguish different categories of 2-dimensional surfaces. He was able to show that any 2-dimensional surface having the same fundamental group as the 2-dimensional surface of a sphere is topologically equivalent to a sphere.
Henri Poincaré Papers curates the publications, manuscripts and letters of the French polymath Henri Poincaré, along with a variety of scholarly resources related to his life and work. These elements are organized here in eight categories.
Jules Henri Poincaré was an important French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who was especially known for his conventionalist philosophy. Most of his publishing was in analysis, topology, probability, mechanics and mathematical physics.
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854—1912) Poincaré was an influential French philosopher of science and mathematics, as well as a distinguished scientist and mathematician. In the foundations of mathematics he argued for conventionalism, against formalism, against logicism, and against Cantor’s treating his new infinite sets as being independent ...
topology (in which the “Poincaré conjecture” was the central unsolved problem for almost a century). These topics also belong to the three main areas of Poincaré’s research that have been translated into English, and I discuss them further below. But they are merely some highlights, and they cannot be properly understood without knowing ...
Henri Poincaré, (born April 29, 1854, Nancy, France—died July 17, 1912, Paris), French mathematician, theoretical astronomer, and philosopher of science.
Mathematics, History, Physics, Technology. 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 alm...
