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Today, 17 July 2012, is the centenary of the death of the great French polymath Henri Poincaré, once described as the "last of the universalists". His achievements span mathematics (he set the basis ...

Professor Antti Kupiainen was awarded the most important prize in mathematical physics, The Henri Poincaré Prize. is honored for his pioneering contributions to quantum field theory, statistical ...

Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time – he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a ...

In his classical textbook on mechanics, Edmund Whittaker described the three-body problem as “the most celebrated of all dynamical problems”. From 1906 to 1912, Whittaker was Andrews Professor at ...

France's first museum dedicated to the world of mathematics, Maison Poincaré, is the newest addition to Paris's Latin Quarter. The research-based venue, which opened its doors this week, is to be ...

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