Clémentine Laurens
16 articles published in Tangente
N°77Feb 18, 2021Lena, the "first lady" of the Internet
Nearly every computer scientist knows this image: "Lena" (or "Lenna") is a photograph that has been used as a standard test image for digital image-processing algorithms for almost fifty years.
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Math for everyoneN°198Feb 02, 2021Nobel laureates in physics and mathematics
The most famous winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics is probably Albert Einstein, honored in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect—not for his celebrated theory of relativity.
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Math for everyoneN°198Feb 02, 2021Diagonal Ramsey numbers
The events committee (BDF) at the École des champions wants to organise a party by inviting people selected at random from the new intake.
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Math for everyoneN°197Dec 03, 2020"Winter is coming"
In France, the annual influenza epidemic generally occurs between November and April. Timing therefore appears crucial to understanding how the influenza virus spreads: this pathogen has a period during which it is transmitted more readily through the population.
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