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Theatre and maths with Compagnie Terraquée | Tangente

François Perrin, an actor, director and mathematician, and Meriem Zoghlami, a creator of unconventional cultural formats, lead Compagnie Terraquée. Exactly ten years ago, they founded its Mathéâtre lab. In 2017, the company devised a major festival, "Maths en ville".

Alice ErnoultAug 25, 2023

Adrien-Marie Legendre, in search of integer solutions

The search for integer or rational solutions to algebraic equations has left its mark on the history of mathematics. The law of quadratic reciprocity, stated by Legendre, which determines whether a number is a square "modulo a given integer," advanced this field.

David HarariAug 25, 2023

Egon Balas | Tangente

Egon Balas's life story reads like an adventure novel. Discover the remarkable story of this mathematician from communist Romania, who managed to escape the turmoil brought upon him by his love of freedom and whose name is associated with numerous discoveries, particularly in operations research.

Gérard CornuéjolsAug 25, 2023

Marguerite at the ENS | Tangente

Le Théorème de Marguerite, screened last June at the La Baule Festival, received a standing ovation!

Anne BoyéAug 28, 2023

An adventure in fifteen videos | Tangente

Directors Cassia Sakarovitch and Gwenael Mulsant have set themselves a challenge: to make short videos about mathematical concepts from the specialist mathematics curriculum in the final two years of French high school.

Martine BRILLEAUDAug 28, 2023

Marie Crous's two books digitized | Tangente

And soon Marie Crous, a pioneer of decimal arithmetic in France, will no longer be forgotten!

ROGER MANSUYAug 28, 2023

Une bande de timbres à plier - Problème de maths | Tangente

Voici un problème qui a été posé il y a plus d’un siècle par Édouard Lucas. Aucune formule générale n’a été trouvée pour dénombrer le nombre de possibilités pour un ordre n quelconque.

MICHEL CRITONAug 25, 2023