Science and Hypothesis


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Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science.

As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics and celestial mechanics. He was responsible for formulating the Poincaré conjecture, one of the most famous problems in mathematics. 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 is considered to be one of the founders of the field of topology. Poincaré introduced the modern principle of relativity and was the first to present the Lorentz transformations in their modern symmetrical form. He discovered the remaining relativistic velocity transformations and recorded them in a letter to Lorentz in 1905. Thus he obtained perfect invariance of all of Maxwell's equations, an important step in the formulation of the theory of special relativity. (Summary from Wikipedia) (7 hr 11 min)

Chapters

Introduction by Judd Larmor 13:35 Read by Carl Manchester
Author’s Preface 10:54 Read by Peter Eastman
On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning 30:29 Read by Ashwin Jain
Mathematical Magnitude and Experiment 27:10 Read by Anna Simon
Non-Euclidean Geometries 27:52 Read by Leon Mire
Space and Geometry 32:02 Read by ajacoby
Experiment and Geometry 26:55 Read by ajacoby
Classical Mechanics 30:33 Read by Connor Riley
Relative and Absolute Motion 19:52 Read by Mark F. Smith
Energy and Thermo-dynamics 24:04 Read by J. M. Smallheer
Hypotheses in Physics 29:03 Read by Anna Simon
The Theories of Modern Physics 33:10 Read by J. M. Smallheer
The Calculus of Probability 50:39 Read by Mark F. Smith
Optics and Electricity 22:45 Read by Esther
Electro-Dynamics 42:58 Read by Ashwin Jain

Reviews


(4 stars)

book is amazing but a couple of the chapters have readers I couldn't understand.

good, except for A. Jain


(4 stars)

Ashwin Jain is very difficult to understand. He has a thick accent which is unfamiliar to me, and he mispronounces many words. I had to go find the book and read it.


(4 stars)

very good. Excellent content. ell readers good in most cases,. some readers required careful attention. mathematical equation are difficult when read and pen & paper arr needed.