Jules Henri Poincaré (UK: /ˈpwæ̃kɑːreɪ/[4] [US: stress final syllable], French: [ɑ̃ʁi pwɛ̃kaʁe] (About this soundlisten);[5][6] 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",[7] since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.
