Poincaré

[ pwahn-kah-rey; French, pwan-ka-rey ]

noun

1. Jules Hen·ri [zh, y, l ah, n, -, ree], 1854–1912, French mathematician.
2. his cousin Ray·mond [r, e-, mawn], 1860–1934, French statesman: president of France 1913–20.

Poincaré

/ pwɛ̃kare /

noun

1. PoincaréJules Henri18541912MFrenchSCIENCE: mathematicianSCIENCE: physicistPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Jules Henri (ʒyl ɑ̃ri). 1854–1912, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He made important contributions to the theory of functions and to astronomy and electromagnetic theory
2. PoincaréRaymond18601934MFrenchPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: head of state his cousin, Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1860–1934, French statesman; premier of France (1912–13; 1922–24; 1926–29); president (1913–20)

Example Sentences

That group of paintings was made during his time in Hollywood, but they derive from photographs of complex mathematical models by physicist Henri Poincaré that the artist shot in Paris.

From Los Angeles Times

Man Ray was as interested in Shakespeare, poetry and theater as he was in Poincaré, physics and the philosophy of science.

From Los Angeles Times

Names like Gauss, Euler, Riemann, Poincare, Erdős, and the more modern Wiles, Tao, Perelman, and Zhang, all of them associated with the most beautiful mathematics discovered since the dawn of humanity, are all men.

From Scientific American

Jeans and Henri Poincaré were there.

From Washington Post

The 2000 proclamation gave $7 million worth of reasons for people to work on the seven problems: the Riemann hypothesis, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, the P versus NP problem, the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem, the Poincaré conjecture, the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, and the Hodge conjecture.

From Scientific American