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Born on the 29th of April in Nancy, North Eastern France -
Henri Poincare was homeschooled in his early years by his mother after an illness left his larynx and legs paralyzed. He then moved onto schooling at a family friend's home before moving to the Lycee (French secondary school) in 1862. His mathematics teacher noticed his aptitude for mathematics and predicted that he would be a mathematician and a great one, "I wish to say a great mathematician" (Gray, 153).
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Henri served in the Ambulance Corps with his father during the conflict.
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Henri Poincare Attended the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique from 1872-1875 where he graduated and attended Ecole des Mines where he graduated with an engineering degree (Gray, 158).
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Poincare forgot his mathematical paperwork while traveling and drafted an improvement to Fuchs's linear differential equation laid out on a non-Euclidean Disk (gray, 220). This discovery and improvement on Kleinian and Fuchs's mathematical models led to a new field in qualitative theory of differential equations which is the study of differential equations without solving them but observing their properties. -
Poincare began teaching at the University of Paris and worked for the Ministry of Public Services as an engineer where he rose to be the Chief Engineer and Inspector General.
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The Three Body Problem is a problem that originated around the Earth, Sun and Moon and describes how three bodies interact with each other in a three dimensional plane. Poincare's work on differential equations and topology allowed him to lay the ground work for chaos theory and relativity using this as a model to theorize gravitational waves and the movement of objects. -
Jules Henri Poincare Died of a medical complication in July 1917 in Paris, France.
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https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Gray, Jeremy, and Edward G. Gray. Henri Poincaré : A Scientific Biography, Princeton University Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=1042900.
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