Fabien Aoustin
140 articles published in Tangente
Math for everyoneN°225Aug 19, 2025Mathematics at school
Worrying results show that attainment among young French pupils continues to decline, and new baccalauréat examinations in the penultimate year of high school aim to rekindle high school students' enthusiasm for mathematics.
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History and CultureN°224Jun 11, 2025The 2025 Tangente High School Students' Prize
The Tangente High School Students' Prize is now in its tenth year. Throughout the school year, students from tenth grade through their final year of high school scrutinized every book on the shortlist before choosing the winners.
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Math for everyoneN°224Jun 11, 2025New developments in polynomial equations
Did you think the subject of polynomial equations had been more or less settled since Galois's work? Think again.
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History and CultureN°94May 05, 2025An iconic photograph
The famous photograph of Paul Erdős and Terence Tao deep in thought has become an iconic image in the recent history of mathematics. But what were these two extraordinary minds thinking about at that moment?
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History and CultureN°223Apr 15, 2025Maths on France Musique
Many mathematicians enjoy or play music, and the two disciplines have long been far more closely connected than we might imagine today.
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Math for everyoneN°223Apr 14, 2025The maths saga—in podcast form
A historical approach to mathematics in the new podcast "La saga des maths".
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Math for everyoneN°222Feb 11, 2025A bunk conjecture
Bunk beds are not just furniture for children’s rooms, dormitories or barracks. They are mathematical objects too!
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Games and ChallengesN°222Feb 11, 2025Conjectures finally settled!
New developments in the famous "moving sofa problem" and advances in triangle dissection.
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History and CultureN°222Feb 10, 2025The saga of the flat torus
Have you heard of smooth fractals? The story began in the early 1950s, when John Nash astonished everyone by proving that a square could be gently warped into a torus without folding, creasing, stretching or contracting it in ways that alter lengths.
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History and CultureN°222Feb 10, 2025Cyril Bonin's universe
Mathematics can hold a special place in an artist's thinking. Cyril Bonin explains how: he is the sole creator—writer, artist and colorist—of a distinctive body of graphic novels.
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Math for everyoneN°221Dec 18, 20242025: a very square number!
What better way to celebrate the new year than with some delightful mathematical properties of the number 2025? Tangente wishes all its readers a wonderful 2025.
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History and CultureN°221Dec 17, 2024A question of circumference
You might expect calculating the perimeter of an ellipse—a fairly ordinary shape—to be straightforward. Yet it is a problem on which mathematicians have displayed extraordinary ingenuity. And in the formula contest, Ramanujan wins!
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