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Henri Poincaré and Plato's Ghost

PoincarePrinceton University Press have released new editions of Jeremy Gray's texts Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography (first published in 2013) and Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics (first published in 2008). The overview for Henri Poincaré begins as follows.

Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time—he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a prominent philosopher of science whose fresh and surprising essays are still in print a century later. The first in-depth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments, Henri Poincaré explores all the fields that Poincaré touched, the debates sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society today.