ROGER MANSUY
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16 articles published in Tangente
Games and ChallengesN°83Aug 18, 2022A strategy for moving the queen
Two players take turns moving a queen across a chessboard. This seemingly innocuous game offers a way to discover and illustrate a major result in game theory: the Sprague–Grundy theorem. It also has another mathematical surprise in store…
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History and CultureN°181Mar 19, 2018A guided tour of the Panthéon… of mathematics
Visiting Paris with your family or a school group, you may be looking for mathematically themed attractions. The Panthéon is unlikely to spring to mind… Yet this monument celebrating the nation's great figures is full of surprises! Follow the guide.
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Math for everyoneN°180Jan 28, 2018Points and lines: let the maths festivities begin!
On a sheet of paper, you doodle a few points, join them with lines... and you're off! Trial and error, attempts, mistakes, partial successes, a conjecture... It's all there. Mathematics—graph theory in particular—joins the party.
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History and CultureN°168Jan 06, 2016First look: the design for the stamp bearing Sophie Germain's likeness
A woman at the IHP!
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