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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Henri Poincaré, 1912–2012
    sub title: Poincaré Seminar 2012
  name:
    name part: Duplantier, Bertrand.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Rivasseau, Vincent.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 233 p. 33 illus., 14 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This thirteenth volume of the Poincaré Seminar Series, Henri Poincaré, 1912-2012, is published on the occasion of the centennial of the death of Henri Poincaré in 1912. It presents a scholarly approach to Poincaré’s genius and creativity in mathematical physics and mathematics. Its five articles are also highly pedagogical, as befits their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience. Highlights include “Poincaré’s Light” by Olivier Darrigol, a leading historian of science, who uses light as a guiding thread through much of Poincaré ’s physics and philosophy, from the application of his superior mathematical skills and the theory of diffraction to his subsequent reflections on the foundations of electromagnetism and the electrodynamics of moving bodies; the authoritative “Poincaré and the Three-Body Problem” by Alain Chenciner, who offers an exquisitely detailed, hundred-page perspective, peppered with vivid excerpts from citations, on the monumental work of Poincaré on this subject, from the famous (King Oscar’s) 1889 memoir to the foundations of the modern theory of chaos in “Les méthodes nouvelles de la mécanique céleste.” A profoundly original and scholarly presentation of the work by Poincaré on probability theory is given by Laurent Mazliak in “Poincaré’s Odds,” from the incidental first appearance of the word “probability” in Poincaré’s famous 1890 theorem of recurrence for dynamical systems, to his later acceptance of the unavoidability of probability calculus in Science, as developed to a great extent by Emile Borel, Poincaré’s main direct disciple; the article by Francois Béguin, “Henri Poincaré and the Uniformization of Riemann Surfaces,” takes us on a fascinating journey through the six successive versions in twenty-six years of the celebrated uniformization theorem, which exemplifies the Master’s distinctive signature in the foundational fusion of mathematics and physics, on which conformal field theory, string theory and quantum gravity so much de…
  table of contents: Foreword -- 1 Olivier Darrigol - Poincaré's light -- 2 Alain Chenciner - Poincaré and the three-body problem -- 3 Laurent Mazliak: Poincaré's odds -- 4 François Béguin - Henri Poincare and the uniformisation of Riemann surfaces -- 5 Philippe Worms, Harmony and chaos. On the figure of Henri Poincare.
  note: edited by Bertrand Duplantier, Vincent Rivasseau.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Ergodic theory
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
  subject:
    topic: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  classification: QA313
  classification: 515.39
  classification: 515.48
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Progress in Mathematical Physics, 67
  identifier: 9783034808347
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0834-7
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    record creation date: 141114
    record change date: 20151204172443.0
    record identifier: 978-3-0348-0834-7