France
Augustin-Louis Cauchy: an anniversary
By the number of mathematical papers he wrote, Augustin-Louis Cauchy was second just to Leonhard Euler . As many college freshmen may testify, more …
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France
Joseph Louis Lagrange: an anniversary
Joseph Louis, comte de Lagrange , an eminent mathematician and a tragic figure, was born on January 25th, 1736, in Turin as Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrang…
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France
Marie Curie: a birthday
Maria Skłodowska was born on November 7th, 1867 - exactly 50 years before Lenin's Coup in Russia - in Warsaw, Russian Empire. Yes, the history o…
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France
Augustin-Louis Cauchy: an anniversary
By the number of mathematical papers he wrote, Augustin-Louis Cauchy was second just to Leonhard Euler . As many college freshmen may testify, more …
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France
Joseph Fourier: 240th birthday
Exactly 240 years ago, on March 21st, 1768, Joseph Fourier , an 18th century politician and 19th century string theorist, was born in Auxerre, France…
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Young and Fresnel: two interference anniversaries
Thomas Young was a British polymath who died on May 10th, 1829. He achieved a lot in the research of energy, solid mechanics, light, vision, physio…
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L' équation Bogdanov
Le secret de l'origine de l'Univers? (The Bogdanov Equation: the Secret of the Origin of the Universe?) Presses de la renaissance , 240 pages…
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Pierre de Fermat: an anniversary
Pierre de Fermat died exactly 345 years ago, on January 12th, 1665, at the age of 57. His father was a rich leather merchant and a mayor (consul, to…
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E10, billiards, and M-theory
Eleven-dimensional supergravity on tori "T^k" has exceptional non-compact symmetries, and discrete subgroups of them - uniformly written as…
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Alain Connes: uniqueness of Standard Model
Technical note : this posting requires MathML. Microsoft Internet Explorer users may want to download MathPlayer . I recommend to choose the largest …
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France
Young and Fresnel: two interference anniversaries
Thomas Young was a British polymath who died on May 10th, 1829. He achieved a lot in the research of energy, solid mechanics, light, vision, physio…
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France
France: prepare for war in Iran
Just like today, I used to have mixed opinions about the Iraq war back in 2003 when it was getting started. Despite a lot of uncertainty, there exist…
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Charlie Hebdo: France mustn't allow to be changed by murders
Street view: Interestingly, the Google Maps photograph from August 2014 shows a police car at the place of the tragedy. Unfortunately, the protecti…
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