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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Alexander Grothendieck, Henri Poincar, Andr Weil, Heisuke Hironaka, Vladimir Voevodsky, Elmer Rees, Igor Shafarevich, David Mumford, Oscar Zariski, Francesco Severi, Jean-Pierre Serre, Kunihiko Kodaira, Pierre Deligne, Patrick du Val, Yozo Matsushima, E. H. Moore, S. S. Abhyankar, Steven Kleiman, Colin McLarty, Oleg Viro, William Fulton, Michael Artin, Shigefumi Mori, Ravi Vakil, Andrei Suslin, David Eisenbud, Vladimir Rokhlin, Pierre Samuel, Miles Reid, Alfred Clebsch, Frances Kirwan, Joe Harris, Shou-Wu Zhang, Robin Hartshorne, Claire Voisin, Erich K hler, Geir Ellingsrud, Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, Jakob Rosanes, Suren Arakelov, Max Deuring, Pasquale del Pezzo, Victor Flynn, Lothar G ttsche, Francis Sowerby Macaulay, Giusto Bellavitis, Georges Henri Halphen, Rahul Pandharipande, Ragni Piene, Andrzej Bia ynicki-Birula, Fabien Morel, Geoffrey Horrocks. Excerpt: Jules Henri Poincar (29 April 1854 - 17 July 1912) (French pronunciation: ) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. He was responsible for formulating the Poincar conjecture, one of the most famous problems in mathematics. In his research on the three-body problem, Poincar became the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system which laid the foundations of modern chaos theory. He is also considered to be one of the founders of the field of topology. Poincar introduced the modern principle of relativity and was the first to present the Lorentz transformations in their m...
