ELISABETH BUSSER
226 articles published in Tangente
History and CultureN°195Jul 14, 2020The Jacqueline Ferrand Prize goes to a Grenoble initiative
Also awarded every two years by the SMF, the Jacqueline Ferrand Prize goes to "La Grange Vadrouille/La Grange École," an initiative run by the association "La grange des maths." It recognizes an innovative mathematics education project, perfectly in keeping with the association's aims.
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History and CultureN°195Jul 14, 2020D'Alembert Prize goes to a festival!
Awarded every two years by the Société mathématique de France (SMF), the d'Alembert Prize recognizes an initiative designed to make mathematics better known and understood by a broad audience.
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History and CultureN°194May 20, 2020An irresistible geometer
Finding fruitful connections between two mathematical objects that, at first sight, have no reason to meet: this was the essence of Conway's approach. How did he uncover such connections? By playing around, as these examples from geometry show!
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Math for everyoneN°74Apr 16, 2020Curves that go beyond the compass
Even when some "natural" problems prove impossible to solve, mathematicians have found ways around them, producing approximations of varying accuracy. To do so, they have sometimes had to draw on a host of geometric tricks and devise ingenious mechanisms.
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Math for everyoneN°74Apr 15, 2020Getting to grips with polar coordinates
Polar coordinates are particularly well suited to plotting and studying circles, rose curves, and other spirals.
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Reading noteN°74Apr 15, 2020Curves drawn by hand
Euclid's successors invented a whole array of sometimes sophisticated devices for drawing curves.
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Math for everyoneN°193Mar 25, 2020What's new at the Académie des sciences
Of the eighteen newly elected members of the Académie des sciences, eight are women, including two in the mathematics section: Nalini Anantharaman and Mireille Bousquet-Mélou.
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Math for everyoneN°193Mar 23, 2020Polynomial stories
Anyone may come across a polynomial along the way. Here's the proof...
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History and CultureN°192Jan 22, 2020Wanted: a missing abacus
An ancient Roman ivory abacus has been missing for several years.
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Math for everyoneN°192Jan 22, 2020Laure Saint-Raymond, 2020 Bôcher Prize winner
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has just awarded the 2020 Bôcher Prize to French mathematician Laure Saint-Raymond, a professor at ENS Lyon and a member of the Académie des sciences, for her "transformative contributions to kinetic theory, fluid dynamics and Hilbert's sixth problem."
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Math for everyoneN°192Jan 22, 2020Welcome to 2020!
As usual, the new year inspired the Tangente team and their friends, who all vied with one another to tease out the number 2020's astonishing properties.
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Math for everyoneN°192Jan 21, 2020Discontinuities of all kinds
They have been called "pathological"; Henri Poincaré spoke of "monsters," accusing them of being "strange functions that strive to resemble as little as possible the respectable functions that serve some purpose." Yet some discontinuous functions have left their mark on history.
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