Science and Hypothesis

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Henri Poincaré

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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. Science and Hypothesis, first published in French in 1902, presents his account of how scientific principles arise from observation, convention,…

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