Poincaré

American  

[pwahn-kah-rey, pwan-ka-rey] / pwɑn kɑˈreɪ, pwɛ̃ kaˈreɪ /

noun

1. Jules Henri 1854–1912, French mathematician.

2. his cousin Raymond 1860–1934, French statesman: president of France 1913–20.

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Poincaré British  

/ pwɛ̃kare /

noun

1. Jules Henri (ʒyl ɑ̃ri). 1854–1912, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He made important contributions to the theory of functions and to astronomy and electromagnetic theory

2. his cousin, Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1860–1934, French statesman; premier of France (1912–13; 1922–24; 1926–29); president (1913–20)

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Example Sentences

In the startup’s Palo Alto offices, the conference rooms are named for legendary mathematicians—Poincaré, Gauss, Hilbert, Lovelace, Turing.

From The Wall Street Journal

The concept of gravitational waves dates back to 1893 and 1905, when Oliver Heaviside and Henri Poincaré first proposed related ideas.

From Science Daily

That group of paintings was made during his time in Hollywood, but they derive from photographs of complex mathematical models by physicist Henri Poincaré that the artist shot in Paris.

From Los Angeles Times

Man Ray was as interested in Shakespeare, poetry and theater as he was in Poincaré, physics and the philosophy of science.

From Los Angeles Times

Names like Gauss, Euler, Riemann, Poincare, Erdős, and the more modern Wiles, Tao, Perelman, and Zhang, all of them associated with the most beautiful mathematics discovered since the dawn of humanity, are all men.

From Scientific American