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".
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Nancy
- Educated at
- University of ParisÉcole polytechniqueMines ParisTech
- Awards
- 🏆 Bolyai Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Charles Hermite
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Vilhelm Bjerknes
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Trending topics shown first"What is objective must be common to many minds and consequently transmissible from one to the other, and as this transmission can only come about by... discourse... we are even forced to conclude: no …"
"Is the position tenable, that certain phenomena, possible in Euclidean space, would be impossible in non-Euclidean space, so that experience, in establishing these phenomena, would directly contradict…"
"We can not... escape the conclusion that the rule of reasoning by recurrence is irreducible to the principle of contradiction. ...Neither can this rule come to us from experience... This rule, inacces…"
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Timeline
1854
Born
Birth1912
Died
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