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The Foundations of Science

The Foundations of Science

Poincaré, Henri
Halsted, George Bruce
Royce, Josiah

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Science

General MathematicsGeneral World HistoryHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1108069495
ISBN13: 9781108069496
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 11 2014
Pages: 570
Weight: 1.91
Height: 1.27 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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