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Jules Henri Poincaré, 1854-1912. Nineteenth-century French philosopher and mathematician. In the philosophy of science, his chief contention was that scientific proofs are conventional -- that is, based on plausibility rather than truth.

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• Henri Poincaré

  http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/meh/poincare.html
  Short article on this thinker's mathematical legacy.

• Henri Poincare

  http://www.chaos.umd.edu/misc/poincare.html
  Concise biography noting this thinker's seminal importance for chaos theory.

• Jules Henri Poincaré

  http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/periodictable/html/Pr.html
  Concise digest of his mathematical achievements.

• Jules Henri Poincaré

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/poincare/
  Scholarly study of his life and thought by Mauro Murzi. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• MacTutor History of Mathematics: Jules Henri Poincaré

  http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Poincare.html
  Biography, bibliography and poster.

• Science and Hypothesis

  http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Poincare/Poincare_1905_toc.html
  Full online text of this Poincare work, as published in English in 1905.

• The Relativity of Space

  http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/poincare.htm
  Full text of Poincare's 1897 popular explanation of his conception of space.

• Two Philosophical Mistakes in Poincaré

  http://www.friesian.com/poincare.htm
  Essay Kelley L. Ross of the Friesian School.

• World of Scientific Biography: Poincaré, Henri

  http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Poincare.html
  Concise biography with links to related topics.

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