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The "happy ending" problem
In 1933, Hungarian mathematician Eszter Klein posed an apparently elementary geometry problem to a group of young colleagues. It would lead to the birth of a new field of mathematics, discrete geometry, and... a marriage.
Roger Godement: an extraordinary mathematician | Tangente
Who has not had Roger Godement's monumental Cours d'algèbre on their shelves—the textbook that introduced generations of budding mathematicians to linear algebra and undoubtedly taught them to love it?
Autonomous vehicles: life-or-death maths | Tangente
How can morality be programmed into autonomous vehicles? The question, worthy of science-fiction novels, is topical today.
Yoccoz: thirty years in dynamical systems | Tangente
The French mathematician Jean-Christophe Yoccoz died on September 3; he was 59.
Yves Bonnefoy: poetry and mathematics | Tangente
On July 2, 2016, at the opening of the second Nuit des maths in Tours (Indre-et-Loire), university president Jean-Jacques Nattiez paid tribute to Yves Bonnefoy, the poet, translator and art critic who had died the previous day.
Prologin: computer science for young people | Tangente
Have you heard of Prologin, a dynamic organization of young computer scientists?
They make mathematics an art: art and geometry | Tangente
Many contemporary artists incorporate mathematical concepts into their work.