Henri Poincaré: Impatient Genius

by Ferdinand Verhulst

Book Overview

The book describes the life of Henri Poincar?, his work style and in detail most of his unique achievements in mathematics and physics. Apart from biographical details, attention is given to Poincar?'s contributions to automorphic functions, differential equations and dynamical systems, celestial mechanics, mathematical physics in particular the theory of the electron and relativity, topology (analysis situs). A chapter on philosophy explains Poincar?'s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461424062
• ISBN13: 9781461424062
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"