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Poincare lecture

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The above quote expressed at the funeral of Poincaré is ironic because "Poincaré rejects an actual infinity."

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Poincare was perhaps the greatest French mathematician ever, in the league of or better than Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827).

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time reference: time has passed since "just recently".

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the early developer of special theory of relativity