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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780691242033 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NISER LIBRARY |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
NISER LIBRARY |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
51:929 |
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GRA-H |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gray, Jeremy |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Henri Poincaré : |
| Remainder of title |
a scientific biography |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Princeton : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Princeton University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 592 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-584) and indexes. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
irst in-depth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments, Henri Poincaré explores all the fields that Poincaré touched, the debates sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society today.<br/><br/>Math historian Jeremy Gray shows that Poincaré’s influence was wide-ranging and permanent. His novel interpretation of non-Euclidean geometry challenged contemporary ideas about space, stirred heated discussion, and led to flourishing research. His work in topology began the modern study of the subject, recently highlighted by the successful resolution of the famous Poincaré conjecture. And Poincaré’s reformulation of celestial mechanics and discovery of chaotic motion started the modern theory of dynamical systems. In physics, his insights on the Lorentz group preceded Einstein’s, and he was the first to indicate that space and time might be fundamentally atomic. Poincaré the public intellectual did not shy away from scientific controversy, and he defended mathematics against the attacks of logicians such as Bertrand Russell, opposed the views of Catholic apologists, and served as an expert witness in probability for the notorious Dreyfus case that polarized France.<br/><br/>Richly informed by letters and documents, Henri Poincaré demonstrates how one man’s work revolutionized math, science, and the greater world. |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Poincaré, Henri, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1854-1912 |
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Scientists |
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France |
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Biography |
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Mathematics |
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History & philosophy |
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Biography & autobiography |
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Science & technology |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Reviews |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14891853-henri-poincar?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13#CommunityReviews">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14891853-henri-poincar?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13#CommunityReviews</a> |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Universal Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book |
