About the Author
Born in 1854 to a distinguished family whose members included the prime minister and president of France, Jules Henri Poincaré excelled in mathematics from early childhood. The young “Monster of Math,” as his schoolteacher used to call him, was soon to become one of the greatest minds in turn-of-the-century France. In philosophy he shall be always considered the godfather of conventionalism and logical positivism, but for the general public he shall remain the scholar who turned his gifts to describing the meaning of science and mathematics to the layman.
