Henri Poincaré : a scientific biography
"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 centur...
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Livre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Princeton ; NJ [u.a.] :
Princeton University Press
2012.
Palo Alto, Calif : ebrary 2012. |
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès INSA CVL |
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Contient bibliographie et index La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 609 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) corpus Sciences de l'ingénieur Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) corpus Sciences de l'ingénieur |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Henri Poincaré, a scientific biography, Jeremy Gray, 2013, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1 vol. (XIII-592 p.), 978-0-691-15271-4 |
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- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; Views of Poincaré; Poincaré's Way of Thinking; 1 The Essayist; Poincaré and the Three Body Problem; Poincaré's Popular Essays; Paris Celebrates the New Century; Science, Hypothesis, Value; Poincaré and Projective Geometry; Poincaré's Popular Writings on Physics; The Future of Mathematics; Poincaré among the Logicians; Poincaré's Defenses of Science; 2 Poincaré's Career; Childhood, Schooling; The École Polytechnique; The École des Mines; Academic Life; The Dreyfus Affair; National Spokesman; Contemporary Technology
- International RepresentativeThe Nobel Prize; 1911, 1912; Remembering Poincaré; 3 The Prize Competition of 1880; The Competition; Fuchs, Schwarz, Klein, and Automorphic Functions; Uniformization, 1882 to 1907; 4 The Three Body Problem; Flows on Surfaces; Stability Questions; Poincaré's Essay and Its Supplements; Les Méthodes Nouvelles de la Mécanique Céleste; Poincaré Returns; 5 Cosmogony; Rotating Fluid Masses; 6 Physics; Theories of Electricity before Poincaré: Maxwell; Poincaré's Électricité et Optique, 1890; Larmor and Lorentz: The Electron and the Ether; Poincaré on Hertz and Lorentz
- Poincaré: Idealist, Skeptic, or Structural Realist?12 Appendixes; Elliptic and Abelian Functions; Maxwell's Equations; Glossary; References; Articles and Books by Poincaré; Other Authors; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
- St. Louis, 1904The Dynamics of the Electron; Poincaré and Einstein; Early Quantum Theory; 7 Theory of Functions and Mathematical Physics; Function Theory of a Single Variable; Function Theory of Several Variables; Poincaré's Approach to Potential Theory; The Six Lectures in Göttingen, 1909; 8 Topology; Topology before Poincaré; Poincare's Work, 1895 to 1905; 9 Interventions in Pure Mathematics; Number Theory; Lie Theory; Algebraic Geometry; 10 Poincaré as a Professional Physicist; Thermodynamics; Probability; 11 Poincaré and the Philosophy of Science