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Science and Hypothesis

First published: 1902
Pages: 306

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Introduction by Judd Larmor
13:35
Author’s Preface
10:54
On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning
30:29
Mathematical Magnitude and Experiment
27:10
Non-Euclidean Geometries
27:52
Space and Geometry
32:02
Experiment and Geometry
26:55
Classical Mechanics
30:33
Relative and Absolute Motion
19:52
Energy and Thermo-dynamics
24:04
Hypotheses in Physics
29:03
The Theories of Modern Physics
33:10
The Calculus of Probability
50:39
Optics and Electricity
22:45
Electro-Dynamics
42:58

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Science and Hypothesis is the 1905 English translation of the 1902 classic by Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), the French mathematician who was perhaps the last man to master the whole of the mathematics of his time. The book asks what science actually claims when it claims truth, arguing that much of physics and geometry rests on convenient convention rather than fact, and a young Einstein read it closely before relativity. It remains one of the few philosophy-of-science books that working scientists still press on each other. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and philosopher of science whose research connected geometry, celestial mechanics, differential equations, and the foundations of physics.

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