Henri Poincare Quotes

Henri Poincare — French Mathematician born on April 29, 1854, died on July 17, 1912

Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist by Eric Temple Bell, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime... (wikipedia)

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

Henri Poincare Quotes

Henri Poincare Quotes

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