This Poincaré Click Predicts The Future

In order to find the best definition of chance, we must examine some of the facts which it is agreed to regard as fortuitous, to which the calculation of probabilities seems to apply. Poincaré’s paper did not specifically describe the future of mathematics, but it was centered on the theme of how mathematical problems arising in physics would probably be very influential. According to henri poincaré writing in 1908 (english translation), the true method of forecasting the future of mathematics lies in the study of its history and its present state. The true method of forecasting the future of mathematics lies in the study of its history and its present state. And have we not here for us mathematicians, a task in some sort professional?.

The true method of forecasting the future of mathematics lies in the study of its history and its present state. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does.