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I don't know specifically why the article focuses on Poincare and anticipating Godel (it seems like a bit of a stretch).

But Poincare's writings on the philosophy of mathematics and science are really excellent.

link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37157/37157-pdf.pdf



English translations of Science and Hypothesis as well as The Measure of Time can be read here;

`http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Science_and_Hypothesis',

`http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_Time'.

In French, most of Poincare's original works can be read here;

`http://henripoincarepapers.univ-lorraine.fr/bibliohp/index.p....


http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Science_and_Hypothesis

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_Time


FYI, Your top two links fail since they're capturing the second quotation mark inside the markup.




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