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Since 2010, the Tangente Club has used the Tangente Awards to honor creative works that showcase mathematics. The winners receive a work of art. The awards ceremony took place at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris on December 3, 2023, during Tangente Day.
Mathematics, and geometry in particular, is an essential component of that most technical of fields: robotics. The concept of space, which the mathematician Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) explored in depth, lies at the heart of the robotics engineer's work.
In the 17th century, following the Ancients, it was held that "nature abhors a vacuum." By restoring physical experimentation to the heart of scientific inquiry, French scholars of the period would thoroughly reassess this claim. Pascal would devise an ingenious apparatus for "creating a vacuum."
