Papers, etc.
Le Laboratoire de Philosophie et d’Histoire des Sciences Archives Henri Poincaré is publishing Poincaré’s correspondence and putting many of his writings on the web.
Other References: Historical
Barrow-Green, June, Poincaré and the Three Body Problem, (American Mathematical Society/London Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997).
Browder, Felix, ed., The Mathematical Heritage of Henri Poincaré (American Mathematical Society, 1983). Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, vol. 39.
Brown, E.W., An Introductory Treatise on the Lunar Theory, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1896; Dover, 1960)
Brown, Kevin, MathPages, “Poincare Contemplates Copernicus”
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath305/kmath305.htm
Brush, Stephen G., “Poincaré and cosmic evolution,” Physics Today 33, 3, 42-49 (1980)
Cajori, H., History of Mathematics, 3rd ed. (Chelsea, NY, 1980).
Cook, Peter D., The Ages of Mathematics, vol. IV (Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1977).
Dilworth, Craig, History and Philosophy of Science 21, 431 (1990).
Folina, Janet, “Poincare on Mathematics, Intuition and the Foundations of Science,“ in Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1994, v. 2: Symposia and Invited Papers. (1994), pp. 217-226.
Goroff, Daniel, “Henry Poincaré and the Birth of Chaos Theory: An Introduction to the English Translation of Les Méthodes Nouvelles de la Mécanique Céleste, New Methods of Celestial Mechanics.”
Hadamard, Jacques S., “The Early Scientific Work of Henri Poincaré: Lectures delivered at the Rice Institute in May, 1925,” Rice Institute Pamphlet 20, 1, 1-86 (1933).
Hadamard, Jacques S., “The Later Scientific Work of Henri Poincaré: Lectures delivered at the Rice Institute in March, 1920,” Rice Institute Pamphlet 9, 3, 111-183 (1922).
Irons, F.E., Poincareacute;’s 1911-12 Proof of Quantum Discontinuity Interpreted as Applying to Atoms,“ Am. J. Phys. 69, 879-84 (2001).
Logunov, A.A., Henri Poincare and Relativity Theory (unpublished, 2004-05)
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0408077
Newman, James R., ed., World of Mathematics, v. 4, p. 2041.
Stump, David, “Henri Poincaré’s Philosophy of Science,” Studies in History & Philosophy of Science 20, 335 (1989).
Struve, Otto, “Poincaré, Henri, and His Cosmological Studies,” Sky & Telescope 17, 226 (1958).
Wikiquote [quotations attributed to Poincaré]Search ADS for works about Poincare
Other References:Scientific
Some 23 documents, including several whole books, are available (in the original French) online at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Cick on Recherche and then enter Henri Poincare as Auteur.
Poincaré, Henri, Oeuvres de Henri Poincaré (Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1934-65).
Poincaré, H., La Théorie de Maxwell et les oscillations hertziennes (G. Carréé et C. Naud, 1899).
Poincaré, H., “The Future of Mathematics,” Revue generale des Sciences pures et appliquées 19, 23 (1908).
Poincaré, Henri, Leçons sur les hypothèses cosmogoniques professées à la Sorbonne, rédigées par Henri Vergne ... (A. Hermann et fils, Paris, 1911).
Poincaré, H., New Methods of Celestial Mechanics, edited and introduced by Daniel L. Goroff, translation of Méthodes Nouvelles de la Mécanique Céleste (Gauthier-Villars et fils, Paris, 1892-99.) (American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY, 1993).
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Other Works: Popularizations, Fiction, etc.
Poincaré, Henri, La Science et l’hypothèse, translated as Science and Hypothesis (Dover, 1952).
Poincaré, H., Science and Method, translated by Francis Maitland (Dover). [Retrospective review by David Ruelle, Nature 391, 760 (1998)]
Poincaré, H., Les sciences et les humanités
Poincaré, H., “L'Espace et la Géométrie,”” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 3, 631-46 (1895). English translation by William Ryding as “Geometry of Space”
Poincaré, H., “Relativity of Space” [from Science and Method]
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