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Science and Hypothesis

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)

Year of Publication: 1905Genres: Science , *Non-fiction

Running Time: 7 hours 11 minutes 12 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Introduction by Judd Larmor Carl Manchester	13:35
2	Author’s Preface Peter Eastman	10:54
3	On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning Ashwin Jain	30:29
4	Mathematical Magnitude and Experiment Anna Simon	27:10
5	Non-Euclidean Geometries Leon Mire	27:52
6	Space and Geometry ajacoby	32:02
7	Experiment and Geometry ajacoby	26:55
8	Classical Mechanics Connor Riley	30:33
9	Relative and Absolute Motion Mark F. Smith	19:52
10	Energy and Thermo-dynamics J. M. Smallheer	24:04
11	Hypotheses in Physics Anna Simon	29:03
12	The Theories of Modern Physics J. M. Smallheer	33:10
13	The Calculus of Probability Mark F. Smith	50:39
14	Optics and Electricity Esther	22:45
15	Electro-Dynamics Ashwin Jain	42:58