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D'Alembert Prize awarded to Mickaël Launay

The awards are pouring in for Le Grand Roman des maths. The D'Alembert Prize, awarded by the French Mathematical Society, recognizes efforts to popularize mathematics.

2018 Abel Prize: Robert Langlands honored at last!

Like the Fields Medal (restricted to those under 40), the prestigious Abel Prize crowns a career in mathematical research, honoring one outstanding scientist every year since 2003.

Bringing journalists and scientists together for a day

In an unprecedented initiative, journalists and scientists joined forces for an entire day to make sense of the news

Save fuel: bet on tires!

In an unusual turn of events, the Industry category of the 2018 European Inventor Award, presented by the European Patent Office, has gone to a French mathematician.

2017 Tangente Awards: the winners

The Tangente Awards are becoming an increasingly well-known fixture in publishing and education. A look back at the 2017 awards, which were just presented on December 4 at the Palais du Luxembourg.

The Ramanujan–Hardy duo on screen

Paul Erdős and the probabilistic view of arithmetic

With the development of probability theory in the early 20th century, a new field of inquiry opened up in arithmetic: the statistical study of integers. Paul Erdős was among the first mathematicians to grasp the significance of this new approach.

2016 Awards: the winners

The 2016 Tangente Awards were presented on November 28 at the Palais du Luxembourg. Here is our report on awards that are gaining ever greater prominence in France's scientific and cultural landscape.