Science and Method - Poincare, Henri
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One of the great mathematicians of his age, Poincare here deals with a variety of issues of methodology: the selection of facts for study, the calculation of errors, and the use of statistical methods to compensate for errors. It also contains an attack on logicism in the foundations of mathematics, and an early account of the significance of methodology of the "new mechanics" of radioactive decay.

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One of the great mathematicians of his age, Poincare here deals with a variety of issues of methodology: the selection of facts for study, the calculation of errors, and the use of statistical methods to compensate for errors. It also contains an attack on logicism in the foundations of mathematics, and an early account of the significance of methodology of the "new mechanics" of radioactive decay.
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Born in 1854 to a distinguished family whose members included the prime minister and president of France, Jules Henri Poincaré excelled in mathematics from early childhood. The young "Monster of Math," as his schoolteacher used to call him, was soon to become one of the greatest minds in turn-of-the-century France. In philosophy he shall be always considered the godfather of conventionalism and logical positivism, but for the general public he shall remain the scholar who turned his gifts to describing the meaning of science and mathematics to the layman.