Reality, by Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini, was performed this past autumn at the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris (20th arrondissement), and what interests us here is not so much the play's characters as the relationship between its heroine, Janina Turek, and numbers.
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The entire Tangente editorial team joins in wishing its readers a very happy 2016. The gift it has cooked up for you? A bouquet of properties of the number 2016!
Rolle's theorem, like the celebrated mean value theorem, has been dropped from the secondary-school curriculum. Yet these two major results in analysis are of far more than historical importance. They can be used to solve a great many mathematical problems!
Prime numbers are an endless source of mathematical surprises: they are infinite in number yet rare, and attempts to count them bring transcendental functions into play, such as the Riemann zeta function, which at first glance seem far removed from arithmetic.
For Tangente's 30th anniversary, on Sunday, December 3, renowned experts will talk about the mathematics they love. Here are the summaries.
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