For biographical details besides the references already given in footnotes, see Nordmann's article on Poincaré in Smithsonian Report, 1912; Darbou's eulogy in Le Temps, December 15, 1913; and articles in Revue du Mois, February 10, 1913; La Revue de Paris, February 15, 1913; The Nation, September 12, 1912.
[1] "Science et Méthode," p. 101.
[2] Part III of "The Value of Science."
[3] M. Poincaré, in relating these experiences for their psychological interest, was kind enough to say that the non-mathematical reader need not be frightened at these barbarous names, for it is not at all necessary for him to know what they mean.
[4] Dr. Toulouse has devoted a volume of his series of medico-psychological studies of men of genius to observations on the memory, reaction time, mode of thinking, habits, and physiological constitution of Henri Poincaré (Paris: Flammarion).
[5] Revue des Idées, 1909, p. 488.
[6] Masson's address may be found in Le Bon's bibliography; also in Popular Science Monthly. An entertaining account of Poincaré's reception into the Academy was written for Le Figaro by André Beaunier and translated for the Boston Transcript.
[7] Revue bleue, June 4, 1907, p. 708.
[8] La Revue, 1910.