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A Short Biography of Henri Poincaré

Author Name:

Henri Poincaré

Born As:

Jules Henri Poincaré

Other Names:

Born:

29 Apr 1854

Died:

17 Jul 1912




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Mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer and philosopher of science                          
Selected Works:

Among the specific topics he contributed to are the following:

Algebraic topology
The theory of analytic functions of several complex variables
The theory of abelian functions
Algebraic geometry
Poincaré was responsible for formulating one of the most famous problems in mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture.
Poincaré recurrence theorem
Hyperbolic geometry
Number theory
The three-body problem
The theory of diophantine equations
The theory of electromagnetism
The special theory of relativity

In an 1894 paper, he introduced the concept of the fundamental group.
In the field of differential equations Poincaré has given many results that are critical for the qualitative theory of differential equations, for example the Poincaré sphere and the Poincaré map.
Poincaré on "everybody's belief" in the Normal Law of Errors - see normal distribution for an account of that "law"

Published an influential paper providing a novel mathematical argument in support of quantum mechanics.                          
Mother  Eugénie Launois
Father Leon Poincaré                          
Awards:

Oscar II, King of Sweden's mathematical competition - 1887
American Philosophical Society - 1899
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of London - 1900
Bolyai Prize - 1905
Matteucci Medal - 1905
French Academy of Sciences - 1906
Académie Française - 1909
Bruce Medal - 1911

Named after Poincaré:

Poincaré Prize - Mathematical Physics International Prize
Annales Henri Poincaré - Scientific Journal
Poincaré Seminar - nicknamed "Bourbaphy"
The crater Poincaré on the Moon
Asteroid 2021  - Poincaré