4-34-61. H. Poincaré à Giovanni Battista Guccia

[29.10.1910]11endnote: 1 The manuscript is annotated in Guccia’s hand: “Paris, 29/10/1910 — Risp. 4/11/1910”.

Mon cher ami,

Naturellement je serai enchanté de vous donner mon rapport pour les Rendiconti mais ce rapport ne sera terminé que le 25 novembre.22endnote: 2 Poincaré clearly responds to a missing letter from Guccia asking him to publish in the Rendiconti di Palermo his report for the 1910 Bolyai Prize on the contributions of David Hilbert (Poincaré, 1911d, e, b, a, c, 1912). Poincaré and Gösta Mittag-Leffler were invited to sit on the prize committee sometime before 27 July, 1910; see Poincaré to Mittag-Leffler, 27 July, 1910 (§ 1-1-254). The prize commission met in Budapest on the 17th and 18th of October, 1910. Presided by Gyula König, the commission included Gusztáv Rados, along with Mittag-Leffler and Poincaré. On Poincaré’s report, see the commentary by Gray (2013, 425–426).

Je suis désolé de n’avoir pu vous voir à Paris, et d’après ce que je comprends vous ne repassez pas par Paris.

Votre ami dévoué,

Poincaré

ALS 1p. Archives, Circolo matematico di Palermo.

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Notes

  • 1 The manuscript is annotated in Guccia’s hand: “Paris, 29/10/1910 — Risp. 4/11/1910”.
  • 2 Poincaré clearly responds to a missing letter from Guccia asking him to publish in the Rendiconti di Palermo his report for the 1910 Bolyai Prize on the contributions of David Hilbert (Poincaré, 1911d, e, b, a, c, 1912). Poincaré and Gösta Mittag-Leffler were invited to sit on the prize committee sometime before 27 July, 1910; see Poincaré to Mittag-Leffler, 27 July, 1910 (§ 1-1-254). The prize commission met in Budapest on the 17th and 18th of October, 1910. Presided by Gyula König, the commission included Gusztáv Rados, along with Mittag-Leffler and Poincaré. On Poincaré’s report, see the commentary by Gray (2013, 425–426).

Références

  • J. Gray (2013) Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography. Princeton University Press, Princeton. External Links: Link Cited by: endnote 2.
  • H. Poincaré (1911a) Prix Bolyai : procès verbal des Séances de la Commission internationale de 1910. Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Budapest. External Links: Link Cited by: endnote 2.
  • H. Poincaré (1911b) Rapport sur le prix Bolyai (décerné à M. David Hilbert). Rendiconti del Circolo matematico di Palermo 31, pp. 109–132. External Links: Link Cited by: endnote 2.
  • H. Poincaré (1911c) Rapport sur le prix Bolyai, 18/10/1910. Bulletin des sciences mathématiques 31, pp. 67–100. External Links: Link Cited by: endnote 2.
  • H. Poincaré (1911d) The Bolyai Prize, I. Science 33 (855), pp. 753–765. External Links: Link Cited by: endnote 2.
  • H. Poincaré (1911e) The Bolyai Prize, II. Science 33 (856), pp. 801–808. External Links: Link Cited by: endnote 2.
  • H. Poincaré (1912) Rapport sur le prix Bolyai. Acta mathematica 35, pp. 2–28. External Links: Link Cited by: endnote 2.