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French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

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Jules Henri Poincaré (, ; French:[ɑ̃ʁipwɛ̃kaʁe]^ⓘ;^[1] 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science.

He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist",^[2] since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. He has further been called "the Gauss of modern mathematics".^[3] Due to his success in science, along with his influence and philosophy, he has been called "the philosopher par excellence of modern science."^[4]

As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.^[5] In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the f