During his lifetime, Henri Poincare published three major philosophical books which achieved great success: "La science et l'hypothese" (1902), "La valeur de la science" (1905) and "Science et methode" (1908). After his death in 1913, a fourth volume of his philosophical works was published by his heirs as "Dernieres pensees" (1913). The four books constitute the core of Poincare's philosophic works and were given an ovation by scientific and general public. Around 1919, Gustave Le Bon wrote to Poincare's widow. As the director of the "Bibliotheque de Philosophie Scientifique at Flammarion,"...
During his lifetime, Henri Poincare published three major philosophical books which achieved great success: "La science et l'hypothese" (1902), "La va...
This book is a collection of essays on the reception of Leibniz's thinking in the sciences and in the philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries. Authors studied include C.F. Gauss, Georg Cantor, Kurd Lasswitz, Bertrand Russell, Ernst Cassirer, Louis Couturat, Hans Reichenbach, Hermann Weyl, Kurt Godel and Gregory Chaitin. In addition, we consider concepts and problems central to Leibniz's thought and that of the later authors: the continuum, space, identity, number, the infinite and the infinitely small, the projects of a universal language, a calculus of logic, a mathesis...
This book is a collection of essays on the reception of Leibniz's thinking in the sciences and in the philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th ce...
Ce cinquieme volume de la correspondance d'Henri Poincare rassemble l'ensemble des lettres envoyees par le mathematicien a sa famille durant ses annees de formation a l'Ecole polytechnique puis a l'Ecole des mines de Paris. De 1873 a 1878, Poincare ecrit plus de 300 lettres a sa mere, a sa soeur et a son pere. Une part importante de cette correspondance concerne ses etudes pour devenir ingenieur. Poincare evoque ainsi les differents evenements - importants ou anodins - qui ponctuent son parcours de formation dans les deux ecoles: les cours et les examens, les voyages d'etudes en France et...
Ce cinquieme volume de la correspondance d'Henri Poincare rassemble l'ensemble des lettres envoyees par le mathematicien a sa famille durant ses an...
Cet ouvrage contient les correspondances actives et passives de Jules Houel avec Joseph-Marie De Tilly, Gaston Darboux et Victor-Amedee Le Besgue ainsi qu'une introduction qui se focalise sur la decouverte de l'impossibilite de demontrer le postulat des paralleles d'Euclide et l'apparition des premiers exemples de fonctions continues non derivables.
Jules Houel (1823-1886) a occupe une place particuliere dans les mathematiques en France durant la seconde partie du 19eme siecle. Par ses travaux de traduction et ses recensions, il a vivement contribue a la reception de la geometrie non...
Cet ouvrage contient les correspondances actives et passives de Jules Houel avec Joseph-Marie De Tilly, Gaston Darboux et Victor-Amedee Le Besgue a...
