Henri Poincaré — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Henri Poincaré — Mathematician, physicist and philosopher of science, 1854–1912

Son of a professor of medicine and first cousin of Raymond Poincaré, admitted first to Polytechnique in 1873, a mining engineer at Vesoul, doctor in 1879, he taught at Caen and then in Paris, where he held the chair of mathematical astronomy and celestial mechanics. He published on the three-body problem, Fuchsian functions and nascent topology, and for the public La Science et l’Hypothèse in 1902; he was elected to the Académie française in 1908. (Editorial synthesis)

Henri Poincaré was born on 29 April 1854. (source: Académie française)

Henri Poincaré was born in Nancy. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Henri Poincaré died on 17 July 1912. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Henri Poincaré died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

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