On 27 Aug 98, at 16:43, William C Waterhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin McLarty) wrote:
>
> > A bibliography of Poincare's works includes:
> >
> > "Sur l'application du calcul des probabilites" in AFFAIRE
> > DREYFUS.
> > LA REVISION DU PROCES DE RENNES. ENQUETE DE LA CHAMBRE CRIMINELLE DE LA
> > COUR DE CASSATION, 5 MARS--19 NOVEMBRE 1904 t.3. Paris: Ligue des Droits
> > de l'Homme 1909. pp.500-600 (with Darboux and Appell).
>
> > Has anyone here seen this work? Does it comment on the Dreyfus
> > case
> > or is it entirely math exposition? Is the citation quite correct? Is it
> > included in Poincare's OEUVRES? I suspect it is not, since it has joint
> > authorship. ...
>
> I have not seen the work, and it is not in the OEUVRES. But there
> is a reference to it in M. Drouin (ed.), _L'Affaire Dreyfus de A a` Z_
> (Flammarion, 1994), p. 493:
>
> Trois des plus grands mathe'maticiens franc,ais, tous
> signataires de l'Appel, Henri Poincare', Gaston Darboux
> et Paul Appell, de'molissent l'imposture scientifique
> de Bertillon dans un rapport adresse' a` la Cour de
> cassation en 1904.
>
> So I expect it dealt specifically with the handwriting analysis
> in the Dreyfus case.
>
> William C. Waterhouse
> Penn State
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