Science and Hypothesis
Henri Poincaré
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Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science.
As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics and celestial mechanics. He was responsible for formulating the Poincaré conjecture, one of the most famous problems in mathematics. 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 considered to be one of the founders of the field of topology. Poincaré introduced the modern principle of relativity and was the first to present the Lorentz transformations in their modern symmetrical form. He discovered the remaining relativistic velocity transformations and recorded them in a letter to 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. (Summary from Wikipedia) (7 hr 11 min)
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Introduction by Judd Larmor | 13:35 | Gelesen von Carl Manchester |
Author’s Preface | 10:54 | Gelesen von Peter Eastman |
On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning | 30:29 | Gelesen von Ashwin Jain |
Mathematical Magnitude and Experiment | 27:10 | Gelesen von Anna Simon |
Non-Euclidean Geometries | 27:52 | Gelesen von Leon Mire |
Space and Geometry | 32:02 | Gelesen von ajacoby |
Experiment and Geometry | 26:55 | Gelesen von ajacoby |
Classical Mechanics | 30:33 | Gelesen von Connor Riley |
Relative and Absolute Motion | 19:52 | Gelesen von Mark F. Smith |
Energy and Thermo-dynamics | 24:04 | Gelesen von J. M. Smallheer |
Hypotheses in Physics | 29:03 | Gelesen von Anna Simon |
The Theories of Modern Physics | 33:10 | Gelesen von J. M. Smallheer |
The Calculus of Probability | 50:39 | Gelesen von Mark F. Smith |
Optics and Electricity | 22:45 | Gelesen von Esther |
Electro-Dynamics | 42:58 | Gelesen von Ashwin Jain |
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A LibriVox Listener
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