'''Henri Poincaré''' (1854-1912) was a French "mathematician, geometer, philosopher, and man of letters, who was a kind of poet of the infinite, a kind of bard of science."<ref>This quote is from his funeral. See http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Poincare.html</ref> Today he is best known for being one of the first to propose the special theory of relativity. | '''Henri Poincaré''' (1854-1912) was a French "mathematician, geometer, philosopher, and man of letters, who was a kind of poet of the infinite, a kind of bard of science."<ref>This quote is from his funeral. See http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Poincare.html</ref> Today he is best known for being one of the first to propose the special theory of relativity. |