Poincaré
Americannoun
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Jules Henri 1854–1912, French mathematician.
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his cousin Raymond 1860–1934, French statesman: president of France 1913–20.
noun
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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
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his cousin, Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1860–1934, French statesman; premier of France (1912–13; 1922–24; 1926–29); president (1913–20)
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In 2010, a reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman was honored for proving the Poincaré conjecture, the first Millennium Prize Problem to be solved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The concept of gravitational waves dates back to 1893 and 1905, when Oliver Heaviside and Henri Poincaré first proposed related ideas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2025
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 ● Oct. 29, 2024
Poincaré described lying in bed in a half-dream state as the ideal condition for coming up with new ideas.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 7, 2019
M. Briand, like M. Poincaré, advocated proportional representation.
From A History of the Third French Republic by C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad) Wright
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