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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2015
      December 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107252950
      9781108069496
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107252950
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      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.87kg, 570 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, History of Science, Physics and Astronomy, History of Mathematical Texts, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - History of Science
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    Subjects:
    Mathematics, History of Science, Physics and Astronomy, History of Mathematical Texts, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Science
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    A member of the Académie française, Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) was one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His discovery of chaotic motion laid the foundations of modern chaos theory, and he was acknowledged by Einstein as a key contributor in the field of special relativity. He earned his enduring reputation as a philosopher of mathematics and science with this elegantly written work, which was first published in French as three separate essays: Science and Hypothesis (1902), The Value of Science (1905), and Science and Method (1908). Poincaré asserts that much scientific work is a matter of convention, and that intuition and prediction play key roles. George Halsted's authorised 1913 English translation retains Poincaré's lucid prose style, presenting complex ideas for both professional scientists and those readers interested in the history of mathematics and the philosophy of science.

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