Whoops! Make that Poincare who was the mining Injunire. Of course you all caught that.
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), "the extraordinary French mathematician, philosopher, and physicist ... A cultured intellectual, Poincaré was widely acclaimed as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century mathematicians for his invention of a great part of topology." He was also acclaimed for “his celestial mechanics, his enormous contributions to the electrodynamics of moving bodies. Engineers lauded his writings on wireless telegraphy. The wider public devoured his best-selling books on the philosophy of conventionalism, science and values, and his defense of ‘science for science’.” — Galison, Peter, Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps, W. W. Norton & Co., N.Y., 2003, p. 32.
155 He also "produced, quite independently of Einstein, a detailed mathematical physics incorporating the relativity principle." — ibid., p. 28.
"Who would guess from Science and Hypothesis, his best-selling book of 1902, that he had trained as a mining engineer and served as an inspector in the dangerous, hard-pressed coal mines of eastern France?” — ibid., p. 41. He was also a “scientific rapporteur of a major scientific expedition and had served as president of the Bureau of Longitude." — ibid., p. 48. |
