Henri Poincare, Critic of Crisis

by Tobias Dantzig

xi + 149 pages including index, biography of a mathematician/theoretical physicist born in the 1850 who laid the groundwork for other physicists including Einstein when he formulated the theory of relativity

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1968

About the author

Tobias Dantzig (February 19, 1884 – August 9, 1956) was a mathematician of Baltic German and Russian American heritage, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of Number: The Language of Science (A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician) (1930) and Aspects of Science (New York, Macmillan, 1937).