Editors:
- letters, nearly all previously unpublished, are fully annotated, with explanations
- of political, cultural, and technical issues
- Indispensable for understanding the wide-ranging activity of Poincaré, at the intersection of mathematical astronomy, geophysics, systems dynamics, and the politics of empire in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century
- Provides new source materials revealing Poincaré's activity as president of the Bureau of Longitudes, and his authorship of two texts previously attributed to others
Part of the book series: Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives (PAHP)
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Table of contents (48 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The letters in this volume cover Poincaré'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, Poincaré 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. Poincaré 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 Poincaré'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.
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Les lettres du troisième volume de la Correspondance de Poincaré scandent toute son œuvre astronomique, allant de ses premiers mémoires sur les courbes définies par une équation différentielle (1881), jusqu'aux analyses des hypothèses cosmogoniques (1911). Encore très jeune, Poincaré s'est fait remarquer pour sa maîtrise des questions de la mécanique céleste, de tel sorte que les astronomes et les géodésiens l'ont souvent interpellé, 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, Poincaré abordaient les questions principales de l'astronomie mathématique, du célèbre problème des trois corps à la théorie des perturbations et aux figures d'équilibre des masses fluides en rotation. La correspondance de Poincaré éditée et annotée dans ce volume concerne, au-delà des mémoires mathématiques, l'activité de Poincaré en tant que Professeurd'astronomie mathématique et de mécanique céleste à la Sorbonne, rédacteur en chef duBulletin astronomique, et membre du Bureau des longitudes, que Poincaré a présidé à trois reprises. Sa correspondance illumine, dans ce dernier cadre, la réalisation de la mesure d'un arc de méridien à Quito, et le règlement d'un différend franco-brittanique à propos de la différence de longitude entre Greenwich et Paris.Editors and Affiliations
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Centre François Viète, Université de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 3, France
Scott A. Walter
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LHPS – Archives Henri Poincaré , Nancy, France
Philippe Nabonnand, Martina Schiavon
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Fachgruppe Mathematik und Informatik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Ralf Krömer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré, les astronomes, et les géodésiens
Editors: Scott A. Walter, Philippe Nabonnand, Ralf Krömer, Martina Schiavon
Series Title: Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8293-3
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-7167-8Published: 22 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7643-8293-3Published: 14 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2504-3714
Series E-ISSN: 2504-3722
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 391
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, History of Science