The Works of Henri Poincare

The Works of Henri Poincare
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Publisher : CreateSpace
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 1514357739
ISBN-13 : 9781514357736
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Synopsis The Works of Henri Poincare by : Henri Poincare

The Works of Henri Poincare is a classic collection of mathematical and physics works by the great scientist.

Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincaré
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 608
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ISBN-10 : 9780691152714
ISBN-13 : 0691152713
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Synopsis Henri Poincaré by : Jeremy Gray

A comprehensive look at the mathematics, physics, and philosophy of Henri Poincaré 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.

Science and Hypothesis

Science and Hypothesis
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Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HC1I8T
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Synopsis Science and Hypothesis by : Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincare: A Biography Through The Daily Papers

Henri Poincare: A Biography Through The Daily Papers
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Publisher : World Scientific
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9789814556637
ISBN-13 : 9814556637
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Synopsis Henri Poincare: A Biography Through The Daily Papers by : Jean-marc Ginoux

On July 17, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincaré's death was commemorated; his name being associated with so many fields of knowledge that he was considered as the Last Universalist. In Pure and Applied Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Engineering and Philosophy, his works have had a great impact all over the world. Poincaré acquired in his lifetime such a reputation that, both nationally and internationally, his life and career were made the object of various articles in the daily papers not only in France, but also in the USA. Some of his philosophical concepts have even caused sharp controversies in the Press (as we will discover in this book).This work presents an original portrait of Henri Poincaré based on various press cuttings from The New York Times, The San Francisco Sunday Call, The Times, The Sun, The Washington Post that chronicled unknown anecdotes of his life (for example, his first name was actually not Henri, but Henry; he obtained his high school diploma in sciences with a zero in mathematics, etc.). Such an approach enables the discovering of many forgotten or unknown aspects of his scientific and philosophical works as well as his important role in the public sphere.

All Cry Chaos

All Cry Chaos
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Publisher : Permanent Press (NY)
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 1579624650
ISBN-13 : 9781579624651
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Synopsis All Cry Chaos by : Leonard Rosen

All Cry Chaos, a debut thriller by the immensely gifted Leonard Rosen, is a masterful and gripping tale that literally reaches for the heavens. The action begins when mathematician James Fenster is assassinated on the eve of a long-scheduled speech at a World Trade Organization meeting. The hit is as elegant as it is bizarre. Fenster's Amsterdam hotel room is incinerated, yet the rest of the building remains intact. The murder trail leads veteran Interpol agent Henri Poincare on a high-stakes, world-crossing quest for answers. Together with his chain-smoking, bon vivant colleague Serge Laurent, Poincare pursues a long list of suspects: the Peruvian leader of the Indigenous Liberation Front, Rapture-crazed militants, a hedge fund director, Fenster's elusive ex-fiance, and a graduate student in mathematics. Poincare begins to make progress in America, but there is a prodigious hatred trained on him --some unfinished business from a terrifying former genocide case-- and he is called back to Europe to face the unfathomable. Stripped down and in despair, tested like Job, he realizes the two cases might be connected and he might be the link.

The Principles of Mathematical Physics

The Principles of Mathematical Physics
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4064066462758
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Synopsis The Principles of Mathematical Physics by : Henri Poincaré

You will marvel at these principles of mathematical physics written by Henri Poincare, one of the most famous French mathematicians. Contents: History of Mathematical Physics, The Present Crisis of Mathematical Physics, The Future of Mathematical Physics.

The Tenth Witness

The Tenth Witness
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Publisher : Permanent Press (NY)
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1579623190
ISBN-13 : 9781579623197
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Tenth Witness by : Leonard J. Rosen

In this prequel to All cry chaos, engineer Henri Poincaré, not yet an Interpol agent, is working during 1978 on salvage of a shipwreck off the Dutch coast when he meets Liesel Kraus, heir to the Kraus Steel Co. As the two become close, Henri finds disturbing evidence about Liesel's father Otto's conduct during the Nazi era.

The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics

The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9783319528991
ISBN-13 : 3319528998
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics by : Henri Poincaré

Here is an accurate and readable translation of a seminal article by Henri Poincaré that is a classic in the study of dynamical systems popularly called chaos theory. In an effort to understand the stability of orbits in the solar system, Poincaré applied a Hamiltonian formulation to the equations of planetary motion and studied these differential equations in the limited case of three bodies to arrive at properties of the equations’ solutions, such as orbital resonances and horseshoe orbits. Poincaré wrote for professional mathematicians and astronomers interested in celestial mechanics and differential equations. Contemporary historians of math or science and researchers in dynamical systems and planetary motion with an interest in the origin or history of their field will find his work fascinating.

Einstein, Picasso

Einstein, Picasso
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9780786723133
ISBN-13 : 0786723130
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Synopsis Einstein, Picasso by : Arthur I Miller

The most important scientist of the twentieth century and the most important artist had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men examines their greatest creations -- Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Einstein's special theory of relativity. Miller shows how these breakthroughs arose not only from within their respective fields but from larger currents in the intellectual culture of the times. Ultimately, Miller shows how Einstein and Picasso, in a deep and important sense, were both working on the same problem.

Last Thoughts

Last Thoughts
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Publisher : MultiMedia Publishing
Total Pages : 99
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ISBN-10 : 9786060332916
ISBN-13 : 6060332919
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Synopsis Last Thoughts by : Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincaré is a mathematician, physicist, philosopher and engineer, born April 29, 1854 in Nancy and died July 17, 1912 in Paris. He has carried out works of major importance in optics and in infinitesimal calculus. His advances on the problem of the three bodies make him a founder of the qualitative study of systems of differential equations and chaos theory; he is also a major precursor of the theory of special relativity and the theory of dynamical systems. Henri Poincaré is considered one of the last great universal scholars, mastering all branches of mathematics of his time and some branches of physics. This book gathers here various articles and lectures that Henri Poincaré himself intended to form the fourth volume of his works of philosophy of science. All the previous ones had already appeared in this collection. It would be useless to recall their prodigious success. The most illustrious of modern mathematicians has been an eminent philosopher, one of those whose books profoundly influence human thought. It is probable that if Henri Poincaré himself had published this volume, he would have modified certain details, removed some repetitions. But it seemed to us that the respect due to the memory of this great death forbade any editing of his text.