Today, 17 July 2012, is the centenary of the death of the great French polymath Henri Poincaré, once described as the "last of the universalists". His achievements span mathematics (he set the basis ...
THE third fascicule of volume one of the Annales of the Henri Poincaré Institute is devoted to the lectures given at the Institute by Prof. M. Born and by Prof. M. Brillouin in 1929 and 1930. Prof.
Springer editor Ludvig Faddeev was among this year's three winners of the Henri Poincaré Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematical physics. It was presented to Faddeev at the ...
In his classical textbook on mechanics, Edmund Whittaker described the three-body problem as “the most celebrated of all dynamical problems”. From 1906 to 1912, Whittaker was Andrews Professor at ...
The universe is finite but doesn't have walls, apparently, which means that it must be bent or curved in some ingenious, twisty way. But how? In 1904 the French mathematician Henri Poincaré attempted ...
Scott Simon talks with math guy Keith Devlin about the work of Grigori Perelman. Perelman is a mathematician at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg, Russia, who may have solved a ...
What happens when a German physicist, a French mathematician and a French physicist are brought together by a letter written by one of them? No, this isn’t a joke or a riddle that you need to solve.
THE Henri Poincaré Institute invites leading scientific workers to lecture on recent progress in mathematical physics. The “Annales”, of which the first number has just appeared, will contain a French ...
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