Description: Science and Method, Paperback by Poincare, Henri; Halsted, George Bruce, ISBN 1534945903, ISBN-13 9781534945906, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Science and Method Henri Poincaré Translated by George Bruce Halsted Jules Henri Poincaré: 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912, was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist by Eric Temple Bell, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. I bring together here different studies relating more or less directly to questions of scientific methodology. The scientific method consists in observing and experimenting; if the scientist had at his disposal infinite time, it would only be necessary to say to him: ‘Look and notice well’; but, as there is not time to see everything, and as it is better not to see than to see wrongly, it is necessary for him to make choice. The first question, therefore, is how he should make this choice. This question presents itself as well to the physicist as to the historian; it presents itself equally to the mathematician, and the principles which should guide each are not without analogy. The scientist conforms to them instinctively, and one can, reflecting on these principles, foretell the future of mathematics. We shall understand them better yet if we observe the scientist at work, and first of all it is necessary to know the psychologic mechanism of invention and, in particular, that of mathematical creation. Observation of the processes of the work of the mathematician is particularly instructive for the psychologist. Introduction Book I. Science and the Scientist The Choice of FactsThe Future of MathematicsMathematical CreationChance Book II. Mathematical Reasoning The Relativity of SpaceMathematical Definitions and TeachingMathematics and LogicThe New LogicsThe Latest Efforts of the Logisticians Book III. The New Mechanics Mechanics and RadiumMechanics and OpticsThe New Mechanics and Astronomy Book IV. Astronomic Science The Milky Way and the Theory of GasesFrench GeodesyGeneral Conclusions
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Book Title: Science and Method
Number of Pages: 132 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: General, Research & Methodology
Genre: Science
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Author: Henri Poincare
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