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- From: kainen@cs.umd.edu (Paul Kainen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: The Value of Science
- Message-ID: <59157@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 04:43:59 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.223032.6568@sequent.com>
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- Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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- The original date of publication for Poincare's The Value of Science,
- according to Tim Poston's 1971 Thesis on Fuzzy Geometry is 1913. Even
- earlier, 1905, is Science and Hypothesis; my Dover reprint has 1905 as
- the date of the translation. Science and Hypothesis speaks of light
- as the domain of projective geometry and seems to anticipate Einstein.
- The chapter on Space and Geometry has an extremely interesting study
- of psychophysical issues.
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