Science and Hypothesis and the 16th-century development of

and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra

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Science and Hypothesis and the 16th-century development ofHere is Poincar's famous discussion of creative psychology as it is revealed in the physical sciences. Explaining how such basic concepts as number and magnitude, space and force were developed, the great French mathematician refutes the skeptical position that modern scientific method and its results are wholly factitious. The places of rigorous logic and intuitive leaps are both established by an analysis of contrasting methods of idea creation in