The results have been published in the journal Science. At the end of the 19th century, the French scientist Henri Poincaré studied systems which cannot be fully analysed with perfect precision ...

WHEN the brilliant French mathematician Henri Poincaré was not actually doing maths, he liked to think about the nature of mathematical creativity. Logic, he felt, was important, but it was not ...

Lin says that the discovery of chaos theory actually dates back to the 1890s and a mathematician and physicist named Henri Poincaré. In his relatively short life, Poincaré made an impact on a ...

When you examine the lives of history's most creative figures, you are immediately confronted with a paradox: They organized their lives around their work, but not their days. Figures as different ...

Springer editor Ludvig Faddeev was among this year's three winners of the Henri Poincaré Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematical physics. It was presented to Faddeev at the ...

This article comes from the Institut Henri-Poincaré (IHP), part of Sorbonne University, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. IHP has no permanent researchers but serves as a venue for mathematical ...