Henri Poincare's Science and Method is an examination of the process scientists go through when determining which of the countless facts before them will be most useful in advancing scientific knowledge.
In this highly readable text-first published in 1908 and here presented in a 1914 translation by Francis Maitland-Poincare investigates mathematics, logic, physics, mechanics, and astronomy and discusses how the methods of selection differ with each field.
Topics discussed include:
the selection of facts
the future of mathematics
chance
the relativity of space
mathematics and logic
mechanics and radium
mechanics and optics
the new mechanics and astronomy
the Milky Way and the theory of gases
and much more.
