Fabien Aoustin
140 articles published in Tangente
Math for everyoneN°196Oct 13, 2020Frances Allen (1932–2020), computing pioneer
Frances Allen was the first woman to receive the Turing Award. She died last August, on her 88th birthday.
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Math for everyoneN°196Oct 13, 2020Would you like a slice of a sphere?
John Conway passed away this year, but the profound questions he raised across many fields remain as relevant as ever (see Tangente 194).
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History and CultureN°195Jul 16, 2020The Tangente High School Students' Prize
The sixth edition of the Tangente High School Students' Prize (PTL) took place this year. Despite the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, several schools still managed to see it through to the end!
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Math for everyoneNov 26, 2019Is the Palais de la découverte in danger?
When it opened in 1937, the Palais de la découverte aimed to "bring science out of the labs" and show "science in the making," with the aim of turning visitors into budding researchers.
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Math for everyoneNov 26, 2019Court delivers verdict on a maths problem
Readers of Tangente 189 (page 5) will no doubt remember Valentin Desgranges, the 19-year-old from Toulouse who submitted a sensible mathematical answer to an online competition run by a major retail chain (Auchan).
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Math for everyoneN°72Oct 09, 2019Good divisions
Beautiful problems are like delicious dishes: we love to share them. Sometimes the question of how to share them out becomes interesting in its own right, especially when we are generous by nature and want to be able to let as many people as possible enjoy them.
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Math for everyoneN°72Oct 09, 2019Coloring problems for all ages
Assigning colors—and their associated sets of constraints—to the vertices of a graph opens up the fascinating world of graph-coloring problems.
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Math for everyoneN°72Oct 09, 2019Triangles, and more triangles!
What is the maximum number of triangles that can be drawn with a given number of line segments?
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Math for everyoneN°72Oct 09, 2019On persistence
Apply the same algorithm to the digits of a number, then repeat the process with the digits of the result, and you encounter the notion of persistence… and the questions it raises.
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Math for everyoneN°72Oct 09, 2019The mathematics of kissing
Kiss anyone you like...
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Math for everyoneN°72Oct 09, 2019An optimal packing problem
You'll never arrange your boxes the same way again!
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Math for everyoneN°72Oct 09, 2019A big coloring problem
In 1950, American mathematician Edward Nelson (1932–2014) proposed an entertaining coloring problem.
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