Poincaré, Jules Henri P Philosophers

Poincaré, Jules Henri

Jules Henri Poincaré, 1854-1912. Nineteenth-century French philosopher and mathematician. In the philosophy of science, his chief contention was that scientific proofs are conventional -- that is, based on plausibility rather than truth.

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• - Full text of Poincare's 1897 popular explanation of his conception of space.
  
• - Concise biography with links to related topics.
  
• - Essay Kelley L. Ross of the Friesian School.
  
• - Scholarly study of his life and thought by Mauro Murzi. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  
• - Biography, bibliography and poster.
  
• - Full online text of this Poincare work, as published in English in 1905.
  
• - Short article on this thinker's mathematical legacy.
  
• - A paragraph noting his chief accomplishments.
  
• - Concise biography noting this thinker's seminal importance for chaos theory.
  
• - Detailed biographical article, with a mathematical emphasis.
  
  

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