Bernard Randé
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Bernard Randé est agrégé et docteur en mathématiques, ancien professeur de classes préparatoires au lycée Louis-le-Grand.
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2 articles published in Tangente
Math CultureN°230Jul 01, 2026Grothendieck in search of a language
A portrait of Grothendieck, a mathematical genius whose practice was intimately bound up with an aesthetics of language, from schemes to topoi.
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History and CultureN°224Jun 11, 2025Hilbert spaces, a framework for quantum mechanics
The mathematical modeling of quantum physics rests on probability theory, but also on Hilbert spaces and linear maps (generally not continuous) on these spaces. The power of this mathematical structure has made it possible, for example, to calculate the energy levels of the hydrogen electron.
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