ELISABETH BUSSER
226 articles published in Tangente
Math for everyoneN°169Mar 14, 2016Bachet and Bézout: a winning mathematical duo
From Gauss's lemma to the Chinese remainder theorem, by way of numerous Diophantine equations, no problem seems able to resist the Bachet–Bézout theorem. Games, recreational puzzles, arithmetical tricks… Let's dive into mathematics!
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Math for everyoneN°169Mar 14, 2016A happy identity
The famous Bézout theorem—actually proved earlier by Bachet de Méziriac—may look simple, but it opens up many avenues in both arithmetic and algebra. This discovery makes it easier to solve a great many Diophantine equations, among other things...
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History and CultureN°169Mar 14, 2016April Fools' Day mathematics
Let's take advantage of April Fools' jokes to revisit, with Stephen Leacock, a few mathematical classics in a lighthearted way…
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History and CultureN°169Mar 14, 2016Pierre Boulez, mathematics and glory
"Music is a hidden practice of arithmetic, the mind unaware that it is counting," said Leibniz. Pierre Boulez, who died on 5 January, conductor, composer and teacher of music and musical composition all at once, revealed to the whole world the hidden face of "his" music, in which mathematics runs through like a watermark.
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Math for everyoneN°169Mar 07, 2016Mega primes: one more!
A quest that may seem far-fetched or pointless to some, but is of the utmost importance for our secret codes, is that of "mega primes" — in other words, prime numbers with more than a million digits.
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History and CultureN°169Mar 07, 2016Math teacher: a dangerous job for the government
A middle school math teacher was arrested at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport while boarding a plane in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide rule and a calculator.
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History and CultureN°169Mar 07, 2016The Babylonians had calculated Jupiter's course!
Fourteen centuries before the Europeans, the Babylonians already knew enough geometry to calculate Jupiter's course!
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History and CultureN°167Jan 27, 2016Tales of Thales
Thales fascinates! Many historians of science and mathematics have taken an interest in this legendary figure.
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Math for everyoneN°167Jan 27, 2016The Simpsons: a website and books
Countless series have taken an interest in science over the past dozen years or so. Mostly crime dramas, they draw on elements from biology, and sometimes from mathematics, as with Numb3rs.
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History and CultureN°167Jan 27, 2016The subverted geometry of Julien Prévieux
The exhibition by Julien Prévieux, winner of the 2014 Marcel Duchamp Prize, "Des corps schématiques", running until 1 February 2016 at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), is not, strictly speaking, mathematical art, but since its theme is the recording of movement, some of the artist's geometric obsessions inevitably appear.
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Math for everyoneN°167Jan 27, 2016Arithmetic on stage
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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History and CultureN°167Jan 27, 2016Music, serenity, and fractal art
The artist Alan Stivell, a musician, lyricist, composer and performer well known to defenders of Breton culture, chose a fractal image to illustrate his twenty-fourth album, AMzer (World Village, 2015).
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