Thus he obtained perfect invariance of all of Maxwell's equations, the final step in the formulation of the theory of special relativity. Poincaré discovered the remaining relativistic velocity transformations and recorded them in a letter to Lorentz in 1905. Poincaré introduced the modern principle of relativity and was the first to present the Lorentz transformations in their modern symmetrical form. He is considered to be one of the founders of the field of topology. 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 was responsible for formulating the Poincaré conjecture, one of the most famous problems in mathematics. Poincaré is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.Īs a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
Jules Henri Poincaré (Ap– July 17, 1912) ( IPA: ) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science.
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