Discussing Henri Poincare's "The Value Of Science"
In this episode of Canonball we discuss "The Value Of Science," which was written by Henri Poincare and published in 1904.
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0:00 Intro
0:53 The Search For Truth
06:42 The True Miracle
10:02 The Development Of Scientific Thought
16:02 Methodical Logical Analysts And Daring Intuitive Geometers
18:55 Have We Finally Attained Absolute Mathematical Rigor?
22:38 Logic And Intuition
24:09 Studying An Elephant With A Microscope – A View Of History
28:10 Scientific Conquest By Generalization
29:24 Our Flawed Subjective Perception Of Time And Causation
32:06 Modeling Causality In Politics, Sociology, And History
34:42 Perceiving Simultaneity, Measuring Time, And Opportunism In Choosing Explanations
36:52 The Difficulty In Defining A Point In Absolute Space
42:19 The Value Of Mathematics
47:54 The Symbiosis Of Physics And Math; Math As A Language
54:13 The Mathematician As Artist And The Relationship Between Pure And Applied Math
1:00:32 The Grandeur Of Astronomy
1:06:57 A Criticism Of Auguste Comte
1:08:41 Answering Tolstoy, The Value Of Civilization, And Science For Its Own Sake