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Author:

Ginoux, Jean-Marc, author.

Title:

Henri Poincar©♭ : a biography through the daily papers / Jean-Marc Ginoux, Christian Gerini.

Publisher:

World Scientific Publishing Co.,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Poincar©♭, Henri,--1854-1912.
Mathematicians--France--Biography.
Physicists--France--Biography.

Other Authors:

Gerini, Christian, author.

Other Titles:

Henri Poincar©♭ English

Notes:

Translation of: Henri Poincar©♭ : une biographie au(x) quotidien(s), Ellipses, 2012. (from page x). Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and indexes.

Contents:

The early years. The Poincar©♭ family -- Childhood and studies -- Inspector of mines in Vesoul -- The professor and the savant. From the University of Caen to the Sorbonne -- From the Sorbonne to the Acad©♭mie -- The prize of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway -- The universal thinker and the public figure. French geodesy and the fight over the meridian -- The controversy over the rotation of the earth -- The philosophical work and its impact -- The committed man. The Dreyfus affair -- The role model : the immortal -- Last commitments, last works -- To conclude : the poet of mathematics.

ISBN:

9814556610
9789814556613

OCLC:

(OCoLC)861207495

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)