Poincaré
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Several members of the French Poincaré family have been successful in public and scientific life:
- Antoni Poincaré (1829-1911), civil servant and meteorologist, father of Raymond and Lucien
- Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), physicist and mathematician, cousin of Raymond
- Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934), statesman, son of Antoni
- Lucien Poincaré (1862-1920), physicist and inspector of public education, younger brother of Raymond
In Physics and mathematics
- Poincaré conjecture
- Poincaré recurrence
- The Poincaré group is the group of isometries of Minkowski spacetime and is named in honour of Henri Poincaré.