Henri Poincaré, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science

Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1854

Place of Birth: Nancy, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 17-Jul-1912

Profession: astronomer, engineer, physicist, mathematician, university teacher, researcher, philosopher, philosopher of science, topologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Henri Poincaré

  • Jules Henri Poincaré (UK: , US: ; French: [?~?i pw?~ka?e] (listen); 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science.
  • He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist," since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
  • In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system which laid the foundations of modern chaos theory.
  • He is also considered to be one of the founders of the field of topology. Poincaré made clear the importance of paying attention to the invariance of laws of physics under different transformations, and was the first to present the Lorentz transformations in their modern symmetrical form.
  • Poincaré discovered the remaining relativistic velocity transformations and recorded them in a letter to Hendrik Lorentz in 1905.
  • Thus he obtained perfect invariance of all of Maxwell's equations, an important step in the formulation of the theory of special relativity.
  • In 1905, Poincaré first proposed gravitational waves (ondes gravifiques) emanating from a body and propagating at the speed of light as being required by the Lorentz transformations. The Poincaré group used in physics and mathematics was named after him. Early in the 20th century he formulated the Poincaré conjecture that became over time one of the famous unsolved problems in mathematics until it was solved in 2002–2003 by Grigori Perelman.

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