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<i>La pensée n'est qu'un écliar au milieu d'une longue nuit. Mais c'est cet éclair qui est tout.</i> Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long… - Henri Poincaré
" "La pensée n'est qu'un écliar au milieu d'une longue nuit. Mais c'est cet éclair qui est tout.
Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long night. But this flash means everything.
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About Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912), generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science.
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Jules Henri Poincare
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We have then many kinds of intuition; first, the appeal to the senses and the imagination; next, generalization by induction, copied, so to speak, from the procedures of the experimental sciences; finally, we have the intuition of pure number, whence arose the second of the axioms just enunciated, which is able to create the real mathematical reasoning.
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