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    The Principles of Mathematical Physics
    The Principles of Mathematical Physics
    The Principles of Mathematical Physics
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    The Principles of Mathematical Physics

    By Henri Poincare

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    You will marvel at these principles of mathematical physics written by Henri Poincare, one of the most famous French mathematicians. Contents: History of Mathematical Physics, The Present Crisis of Mathematical Physics, The Future of Mathematical Physics.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 10, 2021
    ISBN4064066462758
    The Principles of Mathematical Physics

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      The Principles of Mathematical Physics - Henri Poincare

      Henri Poincaré

      The Principles of Mathematical Physics

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066462758

      Table of Contents

      The Past and the Future of Physics .

      The Physics of Central Forces.

      The Physics of the Principles.

      Utility of the Old Physics .

      The Present Crisis of Mathematical Physics

      The New Crisis.

      The Principle of Relativity.

      Newton's Principle.

      Lavoisier's Principle.

      Mayer's Principle.

      The Future of Mathematical Physics

      The Principles and Experiment.

      The Role of the Analyst.

      Aberration and Astronomy.

      Electrons and Spectra.

      Conventions Preceding Experiment.

      Future Mathematical Physics.

      The Past and the Future of Physics.

      Table of Contents

      What is the present state of mathematical physics? What are the problems it is led to set itself? What is its future? Is its orientation about to be modified?

      Ten years hence will the aim and the methods of this science appear to our immediate successors in the same light as to ourselves; or, on the contrary, are we about to witness a profound transformation? Such are the questions we are forced to raise in entering to-day upon our investigation.

      If it is easy to propound them: to answer is difficult. If we felt tempted to risk a prediction, we should easily resist this temptation, by thinking of all the stupidities the most eminent savants of a hundred years ago would have uttered, if some one had asked them what the science of the nineteenth century would be. They would have thought themselves bold in their predictions, and after the event, how very timid we should have found them. Do not, therefore, expect of me any prophecy.

      But if, like all prudent physicians, I shun giving a prognosis, yet I can not dispense with a little diagnostic; well, yes, there are indications of a serious crisis, as if we might expect an approaching transformation. Still, be not too anxious: we are sure the patient will not die of it, and we may even hope that this crisis will be salutary, for the history of the past seems to guarantee us this. This crisis, in fact, is not the first, and to understand it, it is important to recall those which have preceded. Pardon then a brief historical sketch.

      The Physics of Central Forces.

      Table of Contents

      Mathematical physics, as we know, was born of celestial mechanics, which gave birth to it at the end of the eighteenth century, at the moment when it itself attained its

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