More than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincare brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics to the general reader. A genius who throughout his l
Edited by Daniel Goroff, Harvard University This English-language edition of Poincare's landmark work is of interest not only to historians of science, but also to mathematicians. Beginning from an in
This reprint of the classic text by French mathematician Henri Poincare (1854-1912) discusses the basic methodology and psychology of scientific discovery, particularly in the areas of mathematics and
