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Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
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Jules Henri Poincaré (, ; French:[ɑ̃ʁipwɛ̃kaʁe]ⓘ;[1] 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist",[2] since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. He has further been called "the Gauss of modern mathematics".[3] Due to his success in science, along with his influence and philosophy, he has been called "the philosopher par excellence of modern science."[4]
As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.[5] In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system which laid the foundations of modern chaos th
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Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography
"Masterly. . . . Gray encapsulates Poincaré's multiple dimensions; his intellectual biography is both a tour de force and a triumph of readability."—George Szpiro, Nature
"Gray shows us the full dazzling sweep of what Poincaré accomplished, including the work on dynamical systems and chaos that only came into its own in recent years. A tour de force, Gray's masterful treatment will long remain an invaluable resource for all who want to understand Poincaré, so embedded within his times and yet so far ahead of them."—Peter Pesic, Science
"[A] comprehensive but uncluttered guide to Poincaré's extensive oeuvres."—Madeline Muntersbjorn, Times Higher Education
"Full of the mathematical, physical and metaphysical ideas of a man who was not only a dispassionate observer of the world around us, but of our way of understanding it."—Mark Ronan, Standpoint Magazine
"[A] comprehensive assessment of Poincare's work and its importance, essential for anyone interested in Poincare's scholarship or the history of mathem
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Nancy, Lorraine, France
Paris, France
Biography
Henri Poincaré's father was Léon Poincaré and his mother was Eugénie Launois. They were 26 and 24 years of age, respectively, at the time of Henri's birth. Henri was born in Nancy where his father was Professor of Medicine at the University. Léon Poincaré's family produced other men of great distinction during Henri's lifetime. Raymond Poincaré, who was prime minister of France several times and president of the French Republic during World War I, was the elder son of Léon Poincaré's brother Antoine Poincaré. The second of Antoine Poincaré's sons, Lucien Poincaré, achieved high rank in university administration.Henri was [2]:-
... ambidextrous and was nearsighted; during his childhood he had poor muscular coordination and was seriously ill for a time with diphtheria. He received special instruction from h
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