POINCARE, PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE: A HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH

Henri Poincare's mathematical work deals with different problems and their interactions. This diversity led Poincare to a global vision of mathematics allowing him to tackle the several problems in which he has been interested from different points of view. But, further his many contributions in Mathematics Poincare was a special sort of genius and the fact that he could make a metareflection on his scientific work arouse a way of thinking which is always difficult to classify. We want to divide our symposium in two main sections in order to broach the issue from two big topics in Poincare's thinking. That is, on one side the interaction between Physics and Mathematics and some of the diverse implications of this interaction. And, on the other side the topic of intuition and the Philosophy of Mathematics.