ELISABETH BUSSER
226 articles published in Tangente
Math for everyoneN°167Jan 26, 2016Mathematics competitions for girls
There have always been girls' athletics and skiing competitions, and girls' chess competitions have existed since 1927... So why not consider mathematics competitions for girls? Let's take stock of the existing initiatives.
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Math for everyoneN°167Jan 26, 2016Did you say "Extraordinary"?
When film puts mathematics in the spotlight, it is often to link it with autism, as in the recent film Le Monde de Nathan (see Tangente 165). When television puts it in the spotlight, it is to showcase feats.
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History and CultureN°167Jan 26, 2016Thales and “his” theorem: historical ambiguity
Who has never heard of Thales's theorem? Yet this extremely famous geometric statement is also one of the theorems whose history is least certain. Let's try to separate history from legend...
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Math for everyoneN°167Jan 19, 2016Fashion by algorithm
Who are these devils dressed in Prada in New York? It's not a joke — it's the title of a scientific paper by researchers from the eminently respectable National Taiwan University and University of Rochester (United States).
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Math for everyoneN°168Jan 11, 2016Yesterday's conjectures, today's progress
Egyptian fractions, like Einstein's relativity, provide the subject matter for conjectures that have only just been proved. The strange abc conjecture, simple to state, has just been resolved... if the proof put forward by Mochizuki turns out to be correct.
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Math for everyoneN°168Jan 11, 2016Maths and sport are also in the news!
The relationship between mathematics and sport is not purely theoretical. It is used every day by athletes, by those who coach them, and by the developers who simulate them.
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Math for everyoneN°168Jan 11, 2016Mathematical art today
Art and geometry always go well together; the material doesn't matter — wood, brick or even chocolate — as long as the shape is beautiful.
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Math for everyoneN°168Jan 07, 2016Tao and the Erdős discrepancy: a conjecture now resolved!
Terence Tao is one of the great "problem posers" of his time, since a photograph that went around the world shows him, at ten years old, already at work with the famous Hungarian mathematician.
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Math for everyoneN°168Jan 07, 20162016, a rich vintage
The entire Tangente editorial team joins in wishing its readers a very happy 2016. The gift it has cooked up for you? A bouquet of properties of the number 2016!
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Math for everyoneN°168Jan 04, 2016Finance, medicine, justice... Mistakes, yes; mathematics, no!
The media regularly blur the distinction between mathematics as a formidable tool and the ways in which some people use it—incorrectly, ideologically or with deliberately malicious intent.
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