Jules Henri PoincareBy: Marjorie

Slimer

Henri

Life Span• Born~April 29, 1854• Death~July 17, 1912• Born & Died in France

Family• Parents~Leon Poincare & Eugénie

Launois

Why He Is Famous• His thesis was on differential

equations and the examiners were somewhat critical of the work. He was responsible for formulating the Poincaré conjecture, one of the most famous problems in mathematics. In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system which laid the foundations of modern chaos theory.

Credit• http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/

Biographies/Poincare.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C

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