ANTOINE HOULOU-GARCIA
62 articles published in Tangente
N°97Feb 10, 20261897: Felix Klein's manifesto
In 1897, Felix Klein signed a feminist manifesto that, sadly, remains useful reading today for anyone who sees mathematics as an inherently male discipline.
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N°97Feb 10, 2026Sofia Kovalevskaya and many others
Although Tangente is bringing you a special issue devoted entirely to women mathematicians, this is not the first time we have invited you to learn more about them.
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History and CultureN°227Dec 15, 2025Maryam Mirzakhani's mathematical vision
In 2020, George Csicsery directed a documentary about Maryam Mirzakhani titled Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani. Through numerous firsthand accounts, it reveals the life, personality and work of the Iranian mathematician.
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History and CultureN°96Dec 01, 2025The Book of Changes
The Book of Changes is a seminal work in the history of Chinese thought and has notably influenced several mathematical texts. Its interest in permutations explains its importance.
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History and CultureN°96Nov 28, 2025Counting in Chinese
The Chinese numeral system dates back to the beginnings of written Chinese, around the third millennium BC.
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History and CultureN°96Nov 28, 2025Translations and transcriptions
Translating and transcribing writing systems and pronunciations very different from our own requires us to clarify certain conventions and practices.
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N°96Nov 28, 2025Editorial
To discover the mathematics of other places and other times is to immerse oneself in an otherness that we often tend to flatten under the weight of a few received ideas picked up here and there. In our special issue no. 93, we set out to discover mathematics in the lands of Islam; this time, we travel to the Far East. These destinations open some of the most beautiful doors of our imagination: China, Japan and Korea.
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History and CultureN°226Oct 10, 2025New geometric volumes revolutionize physics
In a recent study published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, mathematicians Claudia Fevola (Inria Saclay) and Anna-Laura Sattelberger (Max Planck Institute in Leipzig) explore the emerging field of positive geometry to propose a novel bridge between particle physics and cosmology.
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History and CultureN°226Oct 10, 2025Making art with the Conway knot
An artist passionate about mathematics, Michel Delaunay creates works that plunge the eye into the infinity of geometric and topological aesthetics. He notably combines the potentialities of the cube with those of the Conway knot.
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Math for everyoneN°226Oct 10, 2025Saint-Simon's dream of a mathematized politics
In 1820, Saint-Simon proposed a complete reorganization of political life in which he imagined handing power to mathematics. Although his project was never implemented, it directly influenced the emergence of technocracy and our conception of expertise in politics.
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History and CultureN°226Oct 10, 2025Roger Mansuy's mathematical almanac
On the occasion of the publication of his Grand almanach mathématique (The Grand Mathematical Almanac), Roger Mansuy opens up to Tangente about the secrets of this book like no other, in which readers discover, among others, many unjustly forgotten figures.
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Math for everyoneN°226Oct 07, 2025A misunderstanding of Indian numerals
Indian numerals passed through Islamic lands as early as the eighth century (see Tangente special issue 93), then naturally made their way to Spain. There was just one problem: in the medieval West, zero was systematically left out! This failure to grasp the decimal positional system would cause a delay of a good century and a half…
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