| La Correspondance Entre Henri Poincaré, Les Astronomes, Et Les Géodésiens 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Walter, Scott A. (Editor), Nabonnand, Philippe (Editor), Krömer, Ralf (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3764371676 ISBN-13: 9783764371678 Publisher: Birkhauser OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover Language: French Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Science | Astronomy - Mathematics | History & Philosophy |
| Dewey: 509 |
| Series: Publications Des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.66 lbs) 391 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The letters in this volume cover Poincar 's multifaceted career in astronomy in its entirety, extending from the time of his first publications in 1880 to the end of his life in 1912. At a tender age, Poincar established his authority in questions of celestial mechanics, and his views were soon sought after on a vast array of questions by the leading astronomers and geodesists of his time, including C.V.L. Charlier, G.H. Darwin, H. Faye, F.R. Helmert, G. W. Hill, A. Lindstedt, A.M. Liapunov, N. Lockyer, S. Newcomb, K. Schwarzschild, and F. Tisserand. Poincar and his correspondents take up topics ranging from the three-body problem and perturbation theory to the determination of the geoide and the equilibrium figures of rotating fluid masses. The volume also sheds light on Poincar 's three terms as president of the Bureau of Longitudes, where he guided French astronomy and geodesy through ambitious projects, such as the measurement of an arc of meridian near Quito. ------ Les lettres du troisi me volume de la Correspondance de Poincar scandent toute son oeuvre astronomique, allant de ses premiers m moires sur les courbes d finies par une quation diff rentielle (1881), jusqu'aux analyses des hypoth ses cosmogoniques (1911). Encore tr s jeune, Poincar s'est fait remarquer pour sa ma trise des questions de la m canique c leste, de tel sorte que les astronomes et les g od siens l'ont souvent interpell , y compris O. Callandreau, C.V.L. Charlier, G.H. Darwin, F.R. Helmert, A. Lindstedt, A.M. Lyapunov, Simon Newcomb, Karl Schwarzschild et F. Tisserand. Avec ses correspondants, Poincar abordaient les questions principales de l'astronomie math matique, du c l bre probl me des trois corps la th orie des perturbations et aux figures d' quilibre des masses fluides en rotation. La correspondance de Poincar dit e et annot e dans ce volume concerne, au-del des m moires math matiques, l'activit de Poincar en tant que Professeur d'astronomie math matique et de m canique c leste la Sorbonne, r dacteur en chef duBulletin astronomique, et membre du Bureau des longitudes, que Poincar a pr sid trois reprises. Sa correspondance illumine, dans ce dernier cadre, la r alisation de la mesure d'un arc de m ridien Quito, et le r glement d'un diff rend franco-brittanique propos de la diff rence de longitude entre Greenwich et Paris. |