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Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré 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", 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". Due to his success in science, along with his influence in…
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science · French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912) · mathematician · philosopher · astronomer · physicist · engineer · philosopher of science · topologist · university teacher · writer · polymath · also Henri Poincaré, Jules Henri Poincare, Henri Poincare, Poincare, Poincaré
Born 29 April 1854 · Died 17 July 1912 · Q81082
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2026· 2 entries
Sorbonne Université: Abstraction in Colour: a new exhibition at the Maison Poincaré
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2025· 2 entries
Nature: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré: recueil de conférences et mémoires de calcul des probabilitiés et physique théorique
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The Irish Times: Going for gold: Henri Poincaré and solar system stability
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2024· 1 entry
Helsinki: Professor Antti Kupiainen was awarded the The Henri Poincaré Prize
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2022· 2 entries
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2021· 2 entries
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2020· 1 entry
Techno-Science.net: Henri Poincaré
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2019· 1 entry
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2018· 3 entries
El Mostrador: Matemático Henri Poincaré, el profeta del caos que probó que hay problemas imposibles de resolver
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BBC: Henri Poincaré, el profeta del caos que probó que hay problemas imposibles de resolver
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Le Monde.fr: Henri Poincaré, le dernier universaliste
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2017· 1 entry
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2015· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 29 avril 2015.”
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2013· 1 entry
Pro-physik: Henri Poincaré – A Scientific Biography
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2012· 3 entries
Fonds: Henri Poincaré, pionnier de la relativité, est mort il y a 100 ans
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The Guardian: Henri Poincaré: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso
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“Translation from Chenciner, Alain. "A walk through the new methods of celestial mechanics." Progress and Challenges in Dynamical Systems: Proceedings of the International Conference Dynamical Systems: 100 Years after Poincaré, September 2012, Gijón, Spain. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.”
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2010· 1 entry
spektrum.de: Jules Henri Poincaré
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2004· 1 entry
That Poincaré be reburied in the Panthéon in Paris, which is reserved for French citizens of the highest honour
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1996· 1 entry
“Der Wissenschaftler findet seine Belohnung in dem, was Poincaré die Freude am Verstehen nennt, nicht in den Anwendungsmöglichkeiten seiner Erfindung." - Albert Einstein, rückübersetzt in Alice Calaprice (Hrsg.), Anita Ehlers (Übers.): Einstein sagt, Piper-Verlag, München, Zürich 1996, ISBN 3-492-03935-9, Seite 144”
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1952· 2 entries
“Ch. II: Dover abridged edition (1952), p. 20”
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“Preface, Dover abridged edition (1952), p. xxii”
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1921· 1 entry
Titled "Geometrie und Erfahrung (Geometry and Experience)" in connection with non-Euclidean geometry, but not in connection with special relativity
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1913· 2 entries
“Ch. VI: The Classical Mechanics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)”
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“Lu dans la séance publique annuelle du 15 décembre 1913.”
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1912· 16 entries
Died 1912-07-17.
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“Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.”
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Wrote an influential paper which provided a mathematical argument for quantum mechanics
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Poincaré underwent surgery for a prostate problem and subsequently died from an embolism on 17 July 1912, in Paris
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And was generalised to the case of n > 3 bodies by Qiudong Wang in the 1990s
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“Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, save to the facts themselves, because, for thought, submission would mean ceasing to be.”
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“The ones who are preoccupied by logic are above all; to read their works, one is tempted to believe they have advanced only step by step, after the manner of a Vauban who pushes on his trenches against the place besieged, leaving nothing to chance. The others are guided by intuition and, at the first stroke, make quick but sometimes precarious conquests, like bold cavalrymen of the advance guard.”
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“Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.”
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“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.”
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“Calcul des probabilités (2nd ed., 1912), p. 171”
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“französischer Mathematiker und Physiker”
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“Así, el espacio absoluto, el tiempo absoluto, la geometría misma no son condiciones impuestas a la mecánica; todas estas cosas no preexisten a la mecánica, como tampoco la lengua francesa preexiste lógicamente a las verdades expresadas en francés.”
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“[Su Albert Einstein] Dobbiamo soprattutto ammirare in lui la facilità con cui si adatta a concetti nuovi e l'abilità a trarne ogni possibile conclusione.”
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“Le savant digne de ce nom, le géomètre surtout, éprouve en face de son œuvre la même impression que l'artiste ; sa jouissance est aussi grande et de même nature.”
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“Ainsi l’espace absolu, le temps absolu, la géométrie même ne sont pas des conditions qui s’imposent à la mécanique ; toutes ces choses ne préexistent pas plus à la mécanique que la langue française ne préexiste logiquement aux vérités que l’on exprime en français.”
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“We must especially admire in him the ease with which he adapts himself to new concepts and his ability to infer all the consequences from them.”
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1911· 1 entry
Won Bruce Medal (1911).
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1910· 1 entry
“Poincaré, Henri. "Mathematical creation." The Monist (1910): 321-335. Translated from the French by George Bruce Halsted.”
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1908· 4 entries
Career landmark: seat 24 of the Académie française (1908–1912).
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At the Institute of General Psychology in Paris
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Revisits the problem and ends with abandoning the principle of reaction altogether in favor of supporting a solution based in the inertia of aether itself
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“L'invention mathématique », conférence à l’Institut général psychologique, Paris, le 23 mai 1908.”
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1907· 1 entry
Because in his opinion the translation of physics into the language of four-dimensional geometry would entail too much effort for limited profit
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1906· 3 entries
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1906–1906).
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Poincaré pointed out that the combination
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“Die Reihenfolge, in die wir die Begebenheiten des Bewußtseins ordnen, duldet keinerlei Willkür; sie ist uns vorgeschrieben und wir können nichts daran ändern." - Das Maß der Zeit, in: Der Wert der Wissenschaft, B.G.Teubner, Leipzig 1906, Kap. I. S. 26”
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1905· 12 entries
Awarded Royal Order of the Polar Star (1905).
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Awarded Bolyai Prize (1905).
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Won Matteucci Medal (1905).
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“Ch. IV: Space and Geometry, Conclusions (1905) Tr. George Bruce Halstead”
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Poincaré first proposed gravitational waves (ondes gravifiques) emanating from a body and propagating at the speed of light
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Poincaré wrote to Lorentz about Lorentz's paper of 1904, which Poincaré described as a "paper of supreme importance"
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“Lectures on Celestial Mechanics”
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“La Science et l'Hypothèse, English translation: Science and Hypothesis (1905), Dover abridged edition (1952)”
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“Ch. I: On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning (1905) Tr. George Bruce Halstead”
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“Ch. VI: The Classical Mechanics (1905) Tr. George Bruce Halstead”
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“Ch. I. (1905) Tr. George Bruce Halstead”
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“Ch. V: Experiment and Geometry (1905) Tr. George Bruce Halstead”
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1904· 3 entries
As Becquerel took note that "Poincaré's mathematical and philosophical genius surveyed all of physics and was among those that contributed most to human progress by giving researchers a solid basis for their journeys int
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Intervened in the trials of Alfred Dreyfus, attacking the spurious scientific claims regarding evidence brought against Dreyfus
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“L’état actuel et l’avenir de la physique mathematique (1904)”
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1903· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1903).
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1901· 1 entry
Won Sylvester Medal (1901).
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1900· 2 entries
And named it the principle of relativity in 1904, according to which no physical experiment can discriminate between a state of uniform motion and a state of rest
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Lorentz's "wonderful invention" of local time and remarked that it arose when moving clocks are synchronised by exchanging light signals assumed to travel with the same speed in both directions in a moving frame
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1899· 1 entry
“La logique et l'intuition dans la science mathématique et dans l'enseignement" [Logic and intuition in the science of mathematics and in teaching], L'enseignement mathématique (1899)”
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1897· 2 entries
Poincaré backed an unsuccessful proposal for the decimalisation of circular measure, and hence time and longitude
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“Conférence de M. H. Poincaré au congrès international des mathématiciens, à Zürich, en 1897.”
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded Jean Reynaud Prize (1896).
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1895· 1 entry
Lorentz had introduced an auxiliary quantity (without physical interpretation) called "local time"
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1894· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1894).
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1893· 1 entry
Poincaré joined the French Bureau des Longitudes, which engaged him in the synchronisation of time around the world
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1892· 2 entries
Poincaré developed a mathematical theory of light including polarization
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“New Methods of Celestial Mechanics”
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1890· 1 entry
“Notice sur Halphen," Journal de l'École Polytechnique (Paris, 1890), 60ème cahier, p. 143. See also Tobias Dantzig, Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954) p. 8”
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1889· 1 entry
“Sur le problème des trois corps et les équations de la dynamique, On the three-body problem and the equations of dynamics (1889), Chap. XXXIII, Sect. 397”
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1888· 1 entry
“Thermodynamique: Leçons professées pendant le premier semestre 1888–1889 (1892), Preface”
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1887· 3 entries
Won Oscar II, King of Sweden's mathematical competition for a resolution of the three-body problem concerning the free motion of multiple orbiting bodies
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At the young age of 32, Poincaré was elected to the French Academy of Sciences he became its president in 1906, to honorary membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, in 1892, and was elected to the
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In honour of his 60th birthday, Oscar II, King of Sweden, advised by Gösta Mittag-Leffler, established a prize for anyone who could find the solution to the problem
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1886· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the Mathematical Society of France (1886–1886).
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1885· 1 entry
Awarded Poncelet Prize (1885).
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1881· 4 entries
And for the rest of his career, he taught at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne)
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“On curves defined by differential equations”
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Poincaré described hyperbolic geometry in terms of the hyperboloid model, formulating transformations leaving invariant the Lorentz interval
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Poincaré was invited to take a teaching position at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris; he accepted the invitation
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1879· 1 entry
Studied at University of Paris, Doctor (1879).
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1875· 2 entries
Studied at École polytechnique (1873–1875).
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Studied at Mines ParisTech (1875).
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1873· 2 entries
Awarded Concours général (1873).
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Studied at lycée Henri-Poincaré (1862–1873).
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1871· 1 entry
With a baccalauréat in both letters and sciences
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1862· 1 entry
Henri entered the Lycée in Nancy (now renamed the Lycée Henri-Poincaré in his honour, along with Henri Poincaré University, also in Nancy)
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1854· 1 entry
Born 1854-04-29.
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