Henri Poincaré

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description: French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science

98 results

pages: 665 words: 159,350

Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
by Jordan Ellenberg
Published 14 May 2021

The Fractalist
by Benoit Mandelbrot
Published 30 Oct 2012

pages: 283 words: 85,906

The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time
by Joseph Mazur
Published 20 Apr 2020

pages: 461 words: 128,421

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by Justin Fox
Published 29 May 2009

pages: 436 words: 127,642

When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
by Jim Holt
Published 14 May 2018

pages: 437 words: 132,041

Alex's Adventures in Numberland
by Alex Bellos
Published 3 Apr 2011

pages: 634 words: 185,116

From eternity to here: the quest for the ultimate theory of time
by Sean M. Carroll
Published 15 Jan 2010

pages: 340 words: 91,416

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
by Sabine Hossenfelder
Published 11 Jun 2018

pages: 1,079 words: 321,718

Surfaces and Essences
by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
Published 10 Sep 2012

pages: 855 words: 178,507

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
Published 1 Mar 2011

Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North With Paris
by Fodor's
Published 18 Apr 2011

pages: 360 words: 85,321

The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
by Adam Kucharski
Published 23 Feb 2016

What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
by Marcus Du Sautoy
Published 18 May 2016

pages: 315 words: 93,628

Is God a Mathematician?
by Mario Livio
Published 6 Jan 2009

pages: 349 words: 27,507

E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by David Bodanis
Published 25 May 2009

pages: 606 words: 87,358

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
by Richard Baldwin
Published 14 Nov 2016

pages: 337 words: 103,522

The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think
by Marcus Du Sautoy
Published 7 Mar 2019

pages: 338 words: 106,936

The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
by James Owen Weatherall
Published 2 Jan 2013

Geek Wisdom
by Stephen H. Segal
Published 2 Aug 2011

pages: 396 words: 112,748

Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
Published 18 Oct 2011

pages: 524 words: 120,182

Complexity: A Guided Tour
by Melanie Mitchell
Published 31 Mar 2009

pages: 397 words: 110,130

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson
Published 11 Sep 2013

pages: 403 words: 111,119

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by Kate Raworth
Published 22 Mar 2017

pages: 395 words: 116,675

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley

Prime Obsession:: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by John Derbyshire
Published 14 Apr 2003

pages: 390 words: 120,864

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
by Johann Hari
Published 25 Jan 2022

pages: 998 words: 211,235

A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar
Published 11 Jun 1998

pages: 823 words: 220,581

Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
by Steve Keen
Published 21 Sep 2011

pages: 434 words: 135,226

The Music of the Primes
by Marcus Du Sautoy
Published 26 Apr 2004

pages: 505 words: 142,118

A Man for All Markets
by Edward O. Thorp
Published 15 Nov 2016

pages: 182 words: 51,816

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
by Richard P. Feynman , Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands
Published 22 Mar 2011

pages: 158 words: 49,168

Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics
by David Berlinski
Published 2 Jan 2005

What Kind of Creatures Are We? (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)
by Noam Chomsky
Published 7 Dec 2015

pages: 487 words: 151,810

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
by David Brooks
Published 8 Mar 2011

pages: 492 words: 149,259

Big Bang
by Simon Singh
Published 1 Jan 2004

pages: 186 words: 64,267

A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
Published 16 Aug 2011

pages: 240 words: 60,660

Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion With Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
by Emanuel Derman
Published 13 Oct 2011

pages: 210 words: 62,771

Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
by Chris Bernhardt
Published 12 May 2016

pages: 212 words: 65,900

Symmetry and the Monster
by Ronan, Mark
Published 14 Sep 2006

pages: 239 words: 68,598

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
by James E. Lovelock
Published 1 Jan 2009

pages: 208 words: 70,860

Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili
Published 22 Oct 2012

pages: 206 words: 70,924

The Rise of the Quants: Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton
by Colin Read
Published 16 Jul 2012

pages: 231 words: 64,734

Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms
by Mark Spitznagel
Published 9 Aug 2021

pages: 194 words: 63,798

The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
by Moiya McTier
Published 14 Aug 2022

pages: 257 words: 77,030

A Manual for Creating Atheists
by Peter Boghossian
Published 1 Nov 2013

pages: 253 words: 80,074

The Man Who Invented the Computer
by Jane Smiley
Published 18 Oct 2010

pages: 257 words: 76,785

Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less Here's How
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Published 10 Mar 2020

pages: 246 words: 74,404

Do Nothing: How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
by Celeste Headlee
Published 10 Mar 2020

pages: 685 words: 203,431

The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant
Published 23 Jul 2012

pages: 266 words: 86,324

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow
Published 12 May 2008

pages: 287 words: 87,204

Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
by John Gribbin
Published 1 Mar 2012

pages: 289 words: 85,315

Fermat’s Last Theorem
by Simon Singh
Published 1 Jan 1997

pages: 263 words: 81,527

The Mind Is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind
by Nick Chater
Published 28 Mar 2018

pages: 695 words: 219,110

The Fabric of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
Published 1 Jan 2003

pages: 293 words: 88,490

The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
by Richard Bookstaber
Published 1 May 2017

pages: 364 words: 101,286

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
Published 7 Mar 2006

pages: 362 words: 97,862

Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
by Werner Loewenstein
Published 29 Jan 2013

Lonely Planet France
by Lonely Planet Publications
Published 31 Mar 2013

pages: 1,396 words: 245,647

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
by Graham Farmelo
Published 24 Aug 2009

pages: 332 words: 109,213

The Scientist as Rebel
by Freeman Dyson
Published 1 Jan 2006

pages: 397 words: 109,631

Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
by Richard E. Nisbett
Published 17 Aug 2015

pages: 352 words: 104,411

Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work
by Iain Gately
Published 6 Nov 2014

pages: 519 words: 104,396

Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)
by William Poundstone
Published 1 Jan 2010

Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
by Johnjoe McFadden
Published 27 Sep 2021

pages: 432 words: 106,612

Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
by Robin Wigglesworth
Published 11 Oct 2021

The Deep Learning Revolution (The MIT Press)
by Terrence J. Sejnowski
Published 27 Sep 2018

pages: 409 words: 105,551

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by General Stanley McChrystal , Tantum Collins , David Silverman and Chris Fussell
Published 11 May 2015

pages: 467 words: 114,570

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
by Jim Al-Khalili
Published 28 Sep 2010

pages: 410 words: 114,005

Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes--But Some Do
by Matthew Syed
Published 3 Nov 2015

pages: 420 words: 119,928

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past)
by Cixin Liu
Published 11 Nov 2014

pages: 415 words: 114,840

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
Published 17 Jul 2017

pages: 407 words: 116,726

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by Steven Strogatz
Published 31 Mar 2019

pages: 357 words: 112,950

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
by Rashid Khalidi
Published 31 Aug 2006

pages: 561 words: 120,899

The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant From Two Centuries of Controversy
by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Published 16 May 2011

pages: 475 words: 127,389

Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
by Nicholas A. Christakis
Published 27 Oct 2020

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
Published 1 Jan 1974

pages: 459 words: 138,689

Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure
Published 18 May 2020

pages: 444 words: 139,784

How to Read a Book
by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren
Published 14 Jun 1972

pages: 544 words: 134,483

The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars
by Jo Marchant
Published 15 Jan 2020

pages: 601 words: 135,202

Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
by Jeanna Smialek
Published 27 Feb 2023

pages: 523 words: 143,139

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Published 4 Apr 2016

Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing
Published 19 Feb 2016

pages: 482 words: 149,807

A History of France
by John Julius Norwich
Published 30 Sep 2018

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
by Stephen Hawking
Published 28 Mar 2007

pages: 661 words: 169,298

Coming of Age in the Milky Way
by Timothy Ferris
Published 30 Jun 1988

Turing's Cathedral
by George Dyson
Published 6 Mar 2012

pages: 700 words: 160,604

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson
Published 9 Mar 2021

pages: 1,351 words: 385,579

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
Published 24 Sep 2012

pages: 684 words: 188,584

The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by Craig Nelson
Published 25 Mar 2014

pages: 733 words: 179,391

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo
Published 3 Apr 2017

pages: 651 words: 180,162

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published 27 Nov 2012

pages: 733 words: 184,118

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
by W. Bernard Carlson
Published 11 May 2013

pages: 829 words: 186,976

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
by Nate Silver
Published 31 Aug 2012

pages: 647 words: 43,757

Types and Programming Languages
by Benjamin C. Pierce
Published 4 Jan 2002

France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)
by Nicola Williams
Published 14 Oct 2010

pages: 913 words: 265,787

How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
Published 1 Jan 1997

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by Iain McGilchrist
Published 8 Oct 2012

pages: 1,994 words: 548,894

The Rough Guide to France (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides
Published 1 Aug 2019