"We must therefore decide without knowing;...and we must follow rules without quite believing them. What I know is not that such and such thing is true, but that the best course for me is to *act as if* it were true"

#poincare

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Ele Willoughby, PhD · @minouette
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Happy birthday Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), here in my Cubist portrait.

This print is about how movements in art can be connected with contemporary & . Specifically, the way breaks from 1 favoured perspective or absolute frame of reference & breaks down subjects into geometrical shapes from multiple points of view can be tied to advancements in non-Euclidian geometry in math & special relativity (Einstein, 1905).

#mathematician #linocut #math #physics #cubism #printmaking #sciart #poincare

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Sean Reid · @seanreid
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Bryan Kam · @bryankam
704 followers · 1103 posts · Server writing.exchange

Anyone read A. I. Miller's Imagery in Scientific Thought Creating 20th-Century ?

Seems interesting... I'm already looking at , and I may need to look at and anyway. Miller seems to present a different understanding of 's genetic epistemology than I had

#piaget #Boltzmann #poincare #einstein #physics

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JeromeDqn · @JeromeDqn
6 followers · 3 posts · Server fediscience.org

During the course " of systems" taught @UNamur, I asked students to report me their favourite application of the Implicit Function Theorem (IFT). In this unit, this plays a pivotal role for and preservation of .

A student reported me that we can prove the existence of a return time for map of vector fields having a periodic orbit using the IFT. Here how 🧵:

🐦🐦🐦twitter.com/daquin_jerome/stat

#poincare #equilibria #Bifurcations #theorem #dynamical #theory #qualitative

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