LEADER 04028nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910462287003321 005 20211018123024.0 010 $a1-283-83375-1 010 $a1-4008-4479-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400844791 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276859 035 $a(EBL)1042900 035 $a(OCoLC)819717337 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755914 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11423520 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755914 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730938 035 $a(PQKB)10730375 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1042900 035 $a(OCoLC)823717537 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43187 035 $a(DE-B1597)453838 035 $a(OCoLC)979629667 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400844791 035 $a(PPN)187960259 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1042900 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10626925 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL414625 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276859 100 $a20120608d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHenri Poincar$b[electronic resource] $ea scientific biography /$fJeremy Gray 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (609 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-15271-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Essayist --$t2. Poincaré's Career --$t3. The Prize Competition of 1880 --$t4. The Three Body Problem --$t5. Cosmogony --$t6. Physics --$t7. Theory of Functions and Mathematical Physics --$t8. Topology --$t9. Interventions in Pure Mathematics --$t10. Poincaré as a Professional Physicist --$t11. Poincaré and the Philosophy of Science --$t12. Appendixes --$tReferences --$tName Index --$tSubject Index 330 $a"Henri Poincare? (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a prominent philosopher of science whose fresh and surprising essays are still in print a century later. The first in-depth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments, Henri Poincare? explores all the fields that Poincare? touched, the debates sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society today. Math historian Jeremy Gray shows that Poincare?'s influence was wide-ranging and permanent. His novel interpretation of non-Euclidean geometry challenged contemporary ideas about space, stirred heated discussion, and led to flourishing research. His work in topology began the modern study of the subject, recently highlighted by the successful resolution of the famous Poincare? conjecture. And Poincare?'s reformulation of celestial mechanics and discovery of chaotic motion started the modern theory of dynamical systems. In physics, his insights on the Lorentz group preceded Einstein's, and he was the first to indicate that space and time might be fundamentally atomic. Poincare? the public intellectual did not shy away from scientific controversy, and he defended mathematics against the attacks of logicians such as Bertrand Russell, opposed the views of Catholic apologists, and served as an expert witness in probability for the notorious Dreyfus case that polarized France. Richly informed by letters and documents, Henri Poincare? demonstrates how one man's work revolutionized math, science, and the greater world"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aScientists$zFrance$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aScientists 676 $a509.2 676 $aB 700 $aGray$b Jeremy$f1947-$053883 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462287003321 996 $aHenri Poincar$92490437 997 $aUNINA