
By Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a thinker of technological know-how (1854-1912)
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Table of Contents
- approximately This Book
- Translator's Note
- Introduction
- Author's Preface
- half I. quantity And Magnitude
- at the Nature Of Mathematical Reasoning
- Mathematical value And Experiment
- half Ii. Space
- Non Euclidean Geometries
- area And Geometry
- scan And Geometry
- half Iii. Force
- Hypotheses In Physics
- The Theories of recent Physics
- The Calculus Of Probabilities
- Optics And Electricity
- Electro Dynamics
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