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Jules Henri Poincaré, 1854-1912. Nineteenth-century French philosopher and mathematician. In the philosophy of science, his chief contention was that scientific proofs are conventional -- that is, based on plausibility rather than truth.

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MacTutor History of Mathematics: Jules Henri Poincaré Biography, bibliography and poster. www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Poincare.html

World of Scientific Biography: Poincaré, Henri Concise biography with links to related topics. scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Poincare.html

Henri Poincare Concise biography noting this thinker's seminal importance for chaos theory. www-chaos.umd.edu/misc/poincare.html

Two Philosophical Mistakes in Poincaré Essay Kelley L. Ross of the Friesian School. www.friesian.com/poincare.htm

The Relativity of Space Full text of Poincare's 1897 popular explanation of his conception of space. www.marxists.org/../subject/philosophy/works/fr/poincare.htm

Henri Poincaré Short article on this thinker's mathematical legacy. www.usna.edu/Users/math/meh/poincare.html

Jules Henri Poincaré Concise digest of his mathematical achievements. www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/periodictable/html/Pr.html

Biography.com: Poincaré, Henri A paragraph noting his chief accomplishments. search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=6370

Science and Hypothesis Full online text of this Poincare work, as published in English in 1905. spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/Poincare/Poincare_1905_toc.html

PlanetMath: Poincare, Jules Henri Detailed biographical article, with a mathematical emphasis. planetmath.org/encyclopedia/JulesHenriPoincare.html

Jules Henri Poincaré Scholarly study of his life and thought by Mauro Murzi. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. www.iep.utm.edu/p/poincare.htm