Mathematician:Jules Henri Poincaré

Full name: Jules Henri Poincaré.

French mathematician and philosopher.

Often referred to as "The last universalist", as he was the last one able to master the whole of mathematics at the time. (Since then the field has grown too large.)

Introduced the field of special relativity.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 29 April 1854
 * Died: 7 July 1912

Theorems and Definitions

 * Poincaré Conjecture (now proven)
 * Poincaré-Bendixson Theorem
 * Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt Theorem (with George David Birkhoff and Ernst Witt)
 * Poincaré Duality
 * Poincaré Group
 * Poincaré Half-Plane Model
 * Poincaré-Hopf Theorem
 * Poincaré-Lindstedt Method
 * Poincaré Map
 * Poincaré Metric
 * Poincaré-Steklov Operator
 * Poincaré Symmetry
 * Poincaré's Last Geometric Theorem

Books and Papers

 * 1892–99: New Methods of Celestial Mechanics 3 volumes
 * 1894: On the nature of mathematical reasoning
 * 1895: Analysis situs
 * 1898: On the foundations of geometry
 * 1900: Intuition and Logic in mathematics
 * 1900: Sur les groupes continus
 * 1902: Science and Hypothesis
 * 1905: The Value of Science
 * 1905–06: Mathematics and Logic, I–III
 * 1905–10: Lessons of Celestial Mechanics
 * 1908: Science and Method
 * 1910: On transfinite numbers
 * 1912: Sur un théorème de géométrie (in which is presented what is now known as Poincaré's Last Geometric Theorem)