Henri Poincar?:a biography through the daily papers
GENERAL NOTES
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Translation of: Henri Poincar?ش : une biographie au)x( quotidien)s(, Ellipses, 2012. )from page x(
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Includes bibliographical references )pages 227-234( and indexes
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Jean-Marc Ginoux, Christian Gerini
CONTENTS NOTE
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The early years. The Poincar?ش family -- Childhood and studies -- Inspector of mines in Vesoul -- The professor and the savant. From the University of Caen to the Sorbonne -- From the Sorbonne to the Acad?شmie -- The prize of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway -- The universal thinker and the public figure. French geodesy and the fight over the meridian -- The controversy over the rotation of the earth -- The philosophical work and its impact -- The committed man. The Dreyfus affair -- The role model : the immortal -- Last commitments, last works -- To conclude : the poet of mathematics