Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)

Pierre Duhem.

Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician, historian and philosopher of science.

He is best known for his work on chemical thermodynamics, for his philosophical writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria, and for his historical research into the science of the European Middle Ages.

As a scientist, Duhem also contributed to hydrodynamics and to the theory of elasticity.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Crimes against physical constants
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Mathematics (nonfiction)

External links:

• Pierre Duhem @ Wikipedia