Fabien Aoustin
140 articles published in Tangente
Math for everyoneN°85Feb 17, 2023A beautifully wrapped gift
Is the integer 19,061,623 divisible by 37? It is hard to answer "quickly." Yet there is a way to devise simple, effective divisibility tests in no time, without having to perform the division by hand. Blaise Pascal has an arithmetic gift for you!
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History and CultureN°85Feb 17, 2023The art of fair division
Blaise Pascal had a gift for illuminating all manner of situations through sound, precise analysis, pinpointing the difficulties and explaining himself with unsurpassable clarity. One of the most famous questions in probability—the problem of points—was a case in point.
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History and CultureN°85Feb 17, 2023Pascal and geometry
Blaise Pascal's earliest work in geometry has passed into legend. He was only 16 when he published his Essay pour les coniques (Essay on Conics) in 1640.
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History and CultureN°85Feb 17, 2023Pascal, a hero of Italian cinema
The film is little known to general audiences today, but Blaise Pascal is the title character of a feature film directed in 1971 by Roberto Rossellini, a leading figure of Italian neorealism.
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History and CultureN°85Feb 14, 2023An award for theses
The prize awarded by Clermont Auvergne University's Blaise-Pascal Laboratory honors a thesis in pure or applied mathematics.
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History and CultureN°85Feb 14, 2023The Blaise Pascal prize
The Blaise Pascal Prize recognizes work carried out in France on the application of mathematics to engineering and industry.
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Math for everyoneN°209Dec 23, 2022Geometric puzzles at infinity
Some of the most famous sangaku figures echo other mathematical constructions, forging beautiful connections between results established in different places and at different times. Here is a particularly striking example.
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History and CultureN°209Dec 22, 2022The last two sangaku to be solved
Of all the sangaku on record, two have proved particularly difficult to solve. The Japanese mathematician Yamaguchi Kanzan (c. 1781–1850) collected them in his travel journal between 1817 and 1828.
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History and CultureN°209Dec 22, 2022Cantor−Bernstein:
Georg Cantor left his mark on the history of mathematics through his study of infinite sets. The Cantor–Bernstein theorem shows how a few results that are obvious for finite sets generalize to infinite sets… provided one takes a serious look at the question.
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Math for everyoneN°84Nov 21, 2022Catriona Agg's visual geometry
Catriona Agg (until recently also known as Catriona Shearer) is a British mathematics teacher from Cambridge.
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History and CultureN°208Oct 24, 2022A comic book introduction to Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) became the first woman to win the Fields Medal in 2014.
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History and CultureN°208Oct 24, 2022A podcast devoted to Ada Lovelace
Bababam's "True Story" podcasts tell remarkable true stories that are a pleasure to listen to and share.
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