and many physicists consider that Poincaré shares with Lorentz and Einstein the credit for the invention of the special theory of relativity" (DSB). Poincaré was active in the discussions concerning Lorentz's theory of the electron from 1899 on Poincaré was the first to observe that the Lorentz transformations form a group. ![]() Both were universal mathematicians in the supreme sense and both made important contributions to astronomy and mathematical physics. "The development of mathematics in the nineteenth century began under the shadow of a giant, Carl Friedrich Gauss it ended with the domination by a genius of similar magnitude, Henri Poincaré. First edition, extremely rare separately-paginated offprint, of this crucial paper in the development of the special theory of relativity, in which Poincaré showed that the Lorentz transformations form a group and that the Maxwell-Lorentz electromagnetic theory is invariant under this 'Lorentz group' (when augmented by space and time translations, it becomes what is now known as the 'Poincaré group').
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