POINCARE, HENRI

Additional reading There is no definitive biography of Henri Poincar, but Eric T. Bell, Men of Mathematics, ch. 28 (1937, reprinted 1961), contains a biographical study of his work. A useful obituary notice is in the Proc. R. Soc., series A, 91:516 (1915). The collected works, Oeuvres de Henri Poincar, were published by the Acadmie des Sciences de Paris, 10 vol. (191654). His writings on the philosophy of science and of mathematics can be found in The Foundations of Science, containing Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, and Science and Method, trans. by George Bruce Halsted (1913); and in Dernires penses (1913; Mathematics and Science: Last Essays, 1963).