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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Main Author: Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
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