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Henri Poincaré: Impatient Genius by Ferdinand Verhulst (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The book describes the life of Henri Poincaré, his work style and  in detail most of his unique achievements in mathematics and physics. Apart from biographical details, attention is given to Poincaré's contributions to automorphic functions, differential equations and dynamical systems, celestial mechanics, mathematical physics in particular the theory of the electron and relativity, topology (analysis situs). A chapter on philosophy explains Poincaré's conventionalism in mathematics and his view of conventionalism in physics; the latter has a very different character. In the foundations of mathematics his position is between intuitionism and axiomatics. One of the purposes of the book is to show how Poincaré  reached his fundamentally new results in many different fields, how he thought and  how one should read him. One of the new aspects is the description of two large fields of his attention: dynamical systems as presented  in his book on `new methods for celestial mechanics' and his theoretical physics papers. At the same time it will be made clear how analysis and geometry are intertwined in Poincaré's thinking and work.In dynamical systems this becomes clear in his descripti

Who reads Henri Poincaré: Impatient Genius?

Author

Ferdinand Verhulst (auth.)

Publisher

Springer US : Imprint : Springer

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461424079

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Engineering, Science

Updated

2026-03-24