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 ...

Springer editor Ludvig Faddeev was among this year's three winners of the Henri Poincaré Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematical physics. It was presented to Faddeev at the ...

The never-knowingly-undersold Chinese news agency Xinhua is reporting that a team of Chinese scientists has solved Poincaré's Conjecture, one of the longest-outstanding mathematical problems that is ...

THE third fascicule of volume one of the Annales of the Henri Poincaré Institute is devoted to the lectures given at the Institute by Prof. M. Born and by Prof. M. Brillouin in 1929 and 1930. Prof.

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 ...

The Poincare conjecture involves topology, a branch of math that studies shapes. It essentially says that in three dimensions you cannot transform a doughnut shape into a sphere without ripping it, ...

BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — On 29 September, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, will introduce the Henri Poincaré Webinar Series on Optical Polarization and Related Phenomena ...

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THE Henri Poincaré Institute invites leading scientific workers to lecture on recent progress in mathematical physics. The “Annales”, of which the first number has just appeared, will contain a French ...