The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method
The Foundations of Science brings together in one volume George Bruce Halsted's authorized translations of Henri Poincaré's three books for general readers: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science and Science and Method, published in 1913, the year after the mathematician's death. In them Poincaré examines the role of convention and hypothesis in arithmetic, geometry and mechanics, the relation of mathematics to experience, the meaning of space and time, the choice of facts worth studying, the psychology of mathematical invention and the future of physics in the light of the new discoveries about electrons and radiation. He writes without equations and with great clarity, and these essays remain among the most read works of the philosophy of science. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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