C'est par la logique qu'on démontre, c'est par l'intuition qu'on invente. - Henri Poincaré

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C'est par la logique qu'on démontre, c'est par l'intuition qu'on invente.

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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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Alternative Names: Jules Henri Poincare Henri Poincare Poincare Jules Henri Poincaré Poincaré
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Si toutes les parties de l’univers sont solidaires dans une certaine mesure, un phénomène quelconque ne sera pas l’effet d’une cause unique, mais la résultante de causes infiniment nombreuses ; il est, dit-on souvent, la conséquence de l’état de l’univers un instant auparavant.

Il n’y pas d’infini actuel; les Cantoriens l’ont oublié, et ils sont tombés dans la contradiction. Il est vrai que le Cantorisme a rendu des services, mais c’était quand on l’appliquait à un vrai problème, dont les termes étaient nettement définis, et alors on pouvait marcher sans crainte.

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We have selected the most convenient space, but experience has guided our choice; as this choice has been unconscious, we think it has been imposed upon us […] In this progressive education whose outcome has been the construction of space, it is very difcult to determine what is the terms of use, part of the individual, what the part of the race. How far could one of us, transported from birth to an entirely diferent world, where were dominant, for instance, bodies moving in conformity to the laws of motion of non-Euclidean solids, renounce the ancestral space to build a space completely new?

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