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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, March.—The relations of analysis and mathematical physics is the translation, by C. J. Keyser, of the interesting address delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians, at Zürich, on August 9, 1897. The writer, Prof. H. Poincaré, answers some questions which he says are often asked, as “What is the utility of mathematics, and whether its nicely constructed theories, drawn entirely from the mind, are not artificial products of our caprice?” “The end of mathematical physics is not merely to facilitate the numerical calculation of certain constants, or the integration of certain differential equations. It is more; it is, above all, to disclose to the physicist the concealed harmonies of things by furnishing him with a new point of view.”
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Scientific Serial. Nature 57, 598–599 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057598b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057598b0