Henri Poincare: A Scientific Biography (USED)

Description: Product Description : Henri Poincare: A Scientific Biography A comprehensive look at the mathematics physics and philosophy of Henri PoincarHenri Poincar 18541912 was not just one of the most inventive versatile and productive mathematicians of all timehe 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 indepth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments Henri Poincar explores all the fields that Poincar touched the debates sparked by his original investigations and how his discoveries still contribute to society todayMath historian Jeremy Gray shows that Poincars influence was wideranging and permanent His novel interpretation of nonEuclidean 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 Poincar conjecture And Poincars 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 Einsteins and he was the first to indicate that space and time might be fundamentally atomic Poincar 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 FranceRichly informed by letters and documents Henri Poincar demonstrates how one mans work revolutionized math science and the greater world( it is an used product )

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