1. Jules Henri Poincare By: Marjorie Slimer

2. Henri

3. Life Span Born~April 29, 1854 Death~July 17, 1912 Born & Died in France

4. Family Parents~Leon Poincare & Eugénie Launois

5. Why He Is Famous His thesis was on differential equations and the examiners were somewhat critical of the work. He was responsible for formulating the Poincaré conjecture, one of the most famous problems in mathematics. In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system which laid the foundations of modern chaos theory.

6. Credit http://www-groups.dcs.st- and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Poincare.html http://www-groups.dcs.st- and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Poincare.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C 3%A9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C 3%A9