OLIVIER COURCELLE
6 articles published in Tangente
History and CultureN°224Jun 11, 2025The marquise and the scholars of her time
Among masters and peers alike, the marquise may have been unique for her sex, but she was not alone, as her many intellectual exchanges with the scholars of her time attest: Maupertuis, Clairaut, Euler, Kœnig, Johann II Bernoulli, Cramer, among many others.
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History and CultureN°222Feb 10, 2025The clairaut.com website
As its name suggests, clairaut.com is devoted entirely to Alexis Clairaut. It provides a comprehensive inventory of his works, with links to them, along with his correspondence, academic reports, and the principal tributes and portraits devoted to him by his contemporaries.
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History and CultureN°222Feb 10, 2025A precocious child
The engraving by Delafosse below was made from a portrait drawn by L. C. de Carmontelle in 1763.
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History and CultureN°222Feb 07, 2025A Forgotten Light
Alongside Leonhard Euler and Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, Alexis Clairaut was one of the greatest mathematicians of the Enlightenment. Though little known today, he played a fundamental role in validating Newton's theory of universal gravitation.
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History and CultureN°82Sep 19, 2023Évarhistoire, a discussion thread devoted to Galois's life
Far from it—there is still much to be said about Galois! New communication tools, online discussion forums, and the documents digitized and made available online each day are enabling the investigation into this fascinating figure to continue.
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History and CultureN°82Sep 19, 2023A little mystery solved
A contributor to the les-mathematiques.net forum, known by the username anqian, recently solved a small mystery that successive editors of Galois's works had puzzled over in vain.
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