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Jules Henri Poincaré Exhibition Index ICTP Marie Curie Library 2012 Exhibition Index

Jules Henri Poincaré. Mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer and philosopher of science. Biography from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Henri Poincaré, 1854-1912 Jeremy Gray EMS Newsletter, no. 84, p. 19-21 June 2012

Henri Poincaré Edouard Toulose Enquête médico-psychologique sur la supériorité intellectuelle. Tome II 1910

Jules Henri Poincaré Alfred T. DeLury The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, vol. 6, no. 6, p. 308-321 November-December 1912

Démonstration nouvelle des proprieties de l’indicatrice d’une surface Jules Henri Poincaré 1st paper published while a student of Charles Hermite at the Ècole Polytechnique Annales de Mathématique, 2e sèrie, t. XIII Octobre 1874

Sur la dynamique de l’électron Jules Henri Poincaré 1st paper on relativity, which includes the correction of Lorentz's proof related to what he names the Lorentz transformation. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, vol. 140 p. 1504-1508 1905

Address delivered by the President, Professor G. H. Darwin, on presenting the Gold Medal of the Society to M. H. Poincaré G.H. Darwin Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 60, p.406-415, February 1900

Address of the retiring President of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in awarding the Bruce Medal to M. Henri Poincaré Fremont Morse Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 23, no. 136, p. 73-84 April 1911

The Poincaré crater, 319 km diameter. Southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.

Stamps issued by , 18 October 1952 Part of a honoring famous French citizens of the second half of the 19th century

Stamp issued in Portugal, 2000 Issued as one of Portugal’s millennium set honoring 3 important mathematicians of the 20th century (Poincaré, Gödel and Kolmogorov)

Plaque on building of residence from 1887 until his death 63 rue Claude Bernard, 5th arrond

Awarded 1st Sylvester medal Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society St. Andrew's Day, 1901

Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Jules Henri Poincaré The 1st Solvay Conference held in Brussels in the autumn of 1911

Jules Henri Poincaré French mathematician Artwork by Bill Sanderson/SciencePhotoLibrary

Henri Poincaré caricature

The Dreyfus affair: brief account

Affaire Dreyfus: rapport de MM. les experts Barboux, Appel, Poincaré, 2 août 1904

Dreyfus affair: report of the experts Darboux, Appel, Poincaré, 2nd August, 1904

Doodles, appearing in notebooks while a student Laboratoire d’Histoire de Sciences et de Philosophie, Archives Henri Poincaré, Nancy-Université

A page in cosmography notebook while a student Laboratoire d’Histoire de Sciences et de Philosophie, Archives Henri Poincaré, Nancy-Université

Science quotes

Henri Poincaré EPS Fact Sheet European Physical Society – Biographies of Physicists

Éloge historique de Henri Poincaré Gaston Darboux Institut de France, Académie des sciences 15 décembre 1913

The Poincaré disk: the whole world compressed in a circle Hyperbolic tilings from Mathematical Imagery by Jos Leys

Nomination letters for the Nobel Prize in physics to Poincaré Albert A. Michelson Archives, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences - January 1910

Nomination letters for the Nobel Prize in physics to Poincaré Guglielmo Marconi Archives, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences - January 1910

Letter to Pierre Weiss, November 1911 In praise of Albert Einstein

Henri Poincaré et la relativité Christian Marchal Actes de la journée scientifique “Henri Poincaré et la relativité”, Paris 26 mai 2005

The future of Jules Henri Poincaré Translated from: Revue Générale des Sciences Pures et Appliquées, vol. 19, p. 930-939, 1908

L’avenir des mathématiques Jules Henri Poincaré Revue Générale des Sciences Pures et Appliquées, vol. 19, p. 930-939 1908

M.C. Escher: Circle Limit IV Artistic visualization of the Poincaré disk

The Poincaré disk model

M.C. Escher: Circle Limit III Artistic visualization of the Poincaré disk

Grigori Perelman and Henri Poincaré Perelman turns down the Fields Medal, awarded for finding the solution to the Poincaré conjecture, one of the great unsolved problems in mathematics Caricature by Bob Row 2010

The Poincaré Conjecture

Poincaré Conjecture John Milnor “The Millennium Prize Problems” Clay Mathematics Institute and the American Mathematical Society 2006

Mathematician Grigori Perelman with Henri Poincaré Cartoon by Greg Hinkle 2011

Prize for Resolution of the Poincaré Conjecture Awarded to Dr. Grigoriy Perelman Clay Institute press release March 2010

Russian mathematician rejects $1 million prize Malcolm Ritter AP Science Writer July 2010

Institute Henri Poincaré: brief history

The inauguration of the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris [November 1928] Maurice Fréchet Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 35, no. 2, p. 198-200 1929

École Polytechnique Paris

Lycée Henri Poincaré Nancy

The monist: a quarterly magazine devoted to the philosophy of science Vol. XXII, 1912 includes: Henri Poincaré - Chance (p. 31) Henri Poincaré - The new logics (p. 243) Henri Poincaré - The capture hypothesis of T. J. J. See (p. 460) Book review - Poincaré’s cosmogonic hypotheses (p. 480) Henri Poincaré - The latest efforts of the logisticians (p. 524) Philip E. B. Jourdain - Henri Poincaré: obituary (p. 611)

William Benjamin Smith - Henri Poincaré: an appreciation (p. 615)

Funérailles de M. Henri Poincaré, membre de l’Académie Française et de l’Académie des sciences Institut de France 19 juillet 1912

Dernières Pensées, cover page Jules Henri Poincaré Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1913

Henri Poincaré. A life at the service of science Jean Mawhin Proceedings of the Symposium Henri Poincaré International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, Brussels 8-9 October 2004

Anecdote on Poincaré and the baker

Bolyai Medal Hungarian Academy of Sciences Poincaré was the first scientist to be awarded the prize in 1905

Henri Poincaré Timeline Selected key events

Selected Bibliography A selection of Henri Poincaré’s most important publications

Henri Poincaré Books in the Library Collection

Exhibition Index