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Elections: the PLM Act explained | Tangente
Do Parisian voters know that they are choosing the members of three different assemblies? Do they understand how the lucky winners are selected once the votes have been counted? In Marseille and Lyon too, the winner is not necessarily the candidate who received the most votes!
How Archimedes squared his spiral
Archimedes is admired for his great discoveries. Less well known is how his proofs unfolded. Without effective mathematical notation, reasoning was fraught with difficulty and demanded considerable ingenuity…
Game theory: Von Neumann | Tangente
Toward the end of the Second World War, the celebrated mathematician John von Neumann and the economist Oskar Morgenstern broke new ground by providing a mathematical foundation for the strategic behavior of players and economic agents.
D'Alembert Prize: an award-winning festival | Tangente
Awarded every two years by the Société mathématique de France (SMF), the d'Alembert Prize recognizes an initiative designed to make mathematics better known and understood by a broad audience.
Jacqueline Ferrand Prize in Grenoble | Tangente
Also awarded every two years by the SMF, the Jacqueline Ferrand Prize goes to "La Grange Vadrouille/La Grange École," an initiative run by the association "La grange des maths." It recognizes an innovative mathematics education project, perfectly in keeping with the association's aims.
Otto Neugebauer Prize: Karine Chemla | Tangente
Awarded every four years by the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the Otto Neugebauer Prize recognizes outstanding research in the history of mathematics.
2020 Littéramath list | Tangente
Many young French people—and plenty of not-so-young ones—have a fraught relationship with mathematics. This is no secret. One way to address this, and to keep children from feeling that they are entering unfamiliar territory when they first begin learning mathematics, is to familiarize them early on with the cultural world of mathematics.