BERTRAND HAUCHECORNE
179 articles published in Tangente
Math for everyoneN°62Feb 15, 2017The economist's toolkit: integral calculus
The concept of an integral can be useful in economics, for example to define an expected cost (see the article "Inventory management in a random environment")
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Math for everyoneN°62Feb 15, 2017The economist's toolkit: analysis
Economics draws on several tools from mathematical analysis, including the derivative.
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History and CultureN°62Feb 12, 2017When maths divides economists
Over the past few decades, several disputes have punctuated relations between economists and mathematicians.
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Math for everyoneN°62Feb 12, 2017The poverty threshold
Most developed countries have policies to help the poorest members of society. This raises the question of what we mean by "poor." Should the definition be absolute or relative? Should it refer only to income, or should assets and place of residence also be taken into account?
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Math for everyoneN°174Jan 17, 2017The geometry of Turkish
Turkish is an agglutinative language, using suffixes to form its various grammatical features: declension, possession and conjugation. Projections onto a cube determine which suffix to use.
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Math for everyoneN°174Jan 13, 2017The structures of language
Inspired by formal logic, the study of language as a structure developed under the influence first of Saussure and then of Chomsky. Statistics, meanwhile, can be used to analyze texts and are an indispensable tool for machine translation.
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Math for everyoneN°173Nov 22, 2016DGF: the fifth power laid to rest
Did Tangente help bring about the abolition of the formula for distributing France's general operating grant among municipalities?
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Math for everyoneN°173Nov 22, 2016History of shapes
Mathematics inspires artists, as a wonderful exhibition at Les Tanneries, on the banks of the Loing in Amilly, Loiret, demonstrates.
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Math for everyoneN°173Nov 22, 2016US elections: a strange system, a worrying result!
The outcome of the US election did not match the forecasts based on opinion polls. What happened?
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Math for everyoneN°61Oct 05, 2016The language of sets
Words and symbols are also crucial to set theory...
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Math for everyoneN°172Sep 26, 2016Municipal grants
They are a key part of the budgets of municipalities and intermunicipal authorities. They are often calculated in rather strange ways, involving logarithms and the fifth power of the population!
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Math for everyoneN°172Sep 13, 2016They are among us!
Percentages are everywhere. Learn how to avoid their pitfalls.
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