Henri Poincare
Henri Poincare
Jules Henri Poincaréwas 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth29 April 1854
CountryFrance
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Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
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If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
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[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].
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How is error possible in mathematics?
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.
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...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know
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There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.