21. Atlas: French Mathematicians Through The First World War By Catherine Goldstein The talk will follow some french mathematicians through and after the war andcontextualize their postwar mathematical involvment from the perspective of http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/caqq-04

Atlas home Conferences Abstracts about Atlas Joint Meeting of AMS, DMV, and ÖMG June 16-19, 2005 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Organizers Volker Bach, Mainz; Klaus D. Bierstedt, DMV; Susan Friedlander, Associate Secretary, AMS View Abstracts Conference Homepage French mathematicians through the First World War by Catherine Goldstein It is well-known that WWI killed many promising scientists, who were sent to the Front. It is also obvious that the war was a traumatic event for all those who experienced it. What are less obvious are its concrete effects on the survivors and on their professional developments. The talk will follow some French mathematicians through and after the war and contextualize their post-war mathematical involvment from the perspective of their WWI activities. The work reported here takes place in the framework of a joint project CNRS-British Academy on "Mathematics, Mathematicians and the First World War". Date received: April 5, 2005 Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # caqq-04.

22. Blaise Pascal -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article french mathematicians, French philosophers, Christian philosophers he corresponded with (French mathematician who founded number theory; http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/b/bl/blaise_pascal.htm

Blaise Pascal [Categories: 1662 deaths, 1623 births, Jansenism, French physicists, French theologians, French mathematicians, French philosophers, Christian philosophers] Blaise Pascal (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician (A scientist trained in physics) physicist , and religious (A specialist in philosophy) philosopher . Important contributions by Pascal to the natural sciences include the construction of mechanical calculators, considerations on (The branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities) probability theory , the study of fluids, and clarification of concepts such as (The force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)) pressure and (An electrical home appliance that cleans by suction) vacuum . Following a (Click link for more info and facts about mystical) mystical experience in 1654, he fell away from mathematics and physics and devoted himself to reflection and writing about philosophy and (The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth) theology . He suffered from ill-health throughout his life and died two months after his 39th birthday. Family Born in (Click link for more info and facts about Clermont) Clermont , in the (A region in central France) Auvergne region of (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

23. Lane, Saunders Mac %% %% {\it Andr\ E Weil} {\it The Bourbaki is the pen name of a group of french mathematicians . I observedthat an active young French mathematician was now in this country; http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/pre-1996-data/199328-1/Lane

24. Indo-French Cooperation In Mathematics 2 visits of french mathematicians in India; Yannis Manoussakis (july) from Orsayand Pol Vanhaeck (september) from Poitiers visited Pondicherry University. http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/infrcoop/agreement.html

Pondicherry Poitiers Paris VI agreement A tripartite cooperation agreement has been signed between the Universities of Pondicherry Poitiers and Paris VI in november 1993. Each year a support from the french Minstry of Foreign Affairs is provided, which enables two french mathematicians to visit Pondicherry University and give lectures there, and two or three indian mathematicians to visit France for one month each. A report on this programm has been written by Professor P. Jothilingam Under this programm Mrs Gayatri came to France to prepare a thesis under the supervision of In the following visits took place: a one month visit from S. A. Katre (Pune University) to Gilles Lachaud a one month visit from H. P. Patil ( Pondicherry University ) to Y. Manoussakis (LRI, Orsay ). a one month visit from Sitaramaiah Varanasi Pondicherry University ) to J.-L. Nicolas (Institut Desargues, Université de Lyon I In the other direction

25. Prominent Poles Zaremba made many contacts with mathematicians of the French school at this In particular he collaborated with known french mathematicians Painleve and http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/rsolecki/stanislaw_zaremba.html

setAdGroup('67.18.104.18'); var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "angelfire.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Search: Lycos Angelfire 40 Yr Old Virgin Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next Prominent Poles Stanislaw Zaremba, mathematician Born: October 3, 1863, in Romanowka, Ukraine Died: November 23, 1942, in Kraków, Poland The early days. Stanislaw Zaremba's father was an engineer. Higher education. Zaremba attended secondary school in St Petersburg then, after graduating, he studied engineering at the Institute of Technology in that city. He was awarded his engineering diploma in 1886 and he then went to Paris where he studied mathematics for his doctorate at the Sorbonne. As a topic for his doctorate Zaremba looked to build on ideas introduced by a great German mathematician Riemann in 1861. His doctoral thesis Sur un problème concernant l'état calorifique d'un corp homogène indéfini was presented in 1889. Zaremba made many contacts with mathematicians of the French school at this time which would provide him with international collaborators after returning to Poland. In particular he collaborated with known French mathematicians Painleve and Goursat. Teaching and publishing in France.

26. History Of Algebra the Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel and the French mathematician their study were made by the french mathematicians Galois and Augustin Cauchy, http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/

History of Algebra Algebra Help Algebra History -> History of Algebra ( Log On In Depth Wikipedia article on Algebra In Depth WikiBook on ... Algebra The history of algebra began in ancient Egypt and Babylon , where people learned to solve linear ( ax b ) and quadratic ( ax bx c ) equations, as well as indeterminate equations such as x y z , whereby several unknowns are involved. The ancient Babylonians solved arbitrary quadratic equations by essentially the same procedures taught today. They also could solve some indeterminate equations. The Alexandrian mathematicians Hero of Alexandria and Diophantus continued the traditions of Egypt and Babylon, but Diophantus's book Arithmetica is on a much higher level and gives many surprising solutions to difficult indeterminate equations. This ancient knowledge of solutions of equations in turn found a home early in the Islamic world, where it was known as the "science of restoration and balancing." (The Arabic word for restoration, al-jabru, is the root of the word algebra. ) In the 9th century, the Arab mathematician

27. UWM Math: Marden Math Mag Article in Paris I made many friends among the Americans and french mathematicians . was the eventually very wellknown French mathematician, Jean Dieudonné, http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Math/Dept/Marden/marden-mathmag.html

Some Mathematical Reminiscences by Morris Marden This article originally appeared in the October, 1990 issue of Mathematics Magazine volume 63, number 4, pages 244-248 published by the Mathematical Association of America . It is posted here by kind permission of the publisher. 1. Introduction It has been my good fortune, during over sixty years in mathematics, to have met and befriended many mathematicians (over thirty of them are pictured in the 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts Lehrbuch der Funktionentheorie . By the way, this treatise was written in German, because English was not as yet regarded as an appropriate language for a mathematical treatise. I met Osgood in 1920. I was a 15-year-old high school junior, eager to take advantage of the "anticipatory examinations" which a student could take if he were entering with more subjects than needed for regular admission to Harvard. The student could, thereby, earn in advance up to a year's college credit. I resolved to do just that, in particular to cover by myself the Harvard freshman course in analytic geometry and calculus. Osgood, then the mathematics department chairman, advised me as to the texts used in the course. I did well on the examination and was given an A. This success, plus Osgood's apparent interest in me, then persuaded me at age 16 to aspire to become a mathematician. Osgood served as my college advisor, invited me to his home and visited me in the student infirmary. He was a superb teacher who struck a good balance between giving complete details and leaving matters to the student's initiative and intuition, frequently motivating a new subject through physical applications. My last meeting with him was during September 1932 in a Harvard Square cafeteria. Greeting me was a clean shaven man whose voice I recognized as Osgood's. Since that was only a few days before my marriage, I invited him and his new young wife to the wedding, and both came.

28. Award For Mathematician The award was conferred on him by Claudie Haignere, the visiting French Research that he found in 1986 in association with french mathematicians http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2004/stories/20030228006813400.htm

Volume 20 - Issue 04, February 15 - 28, 2003 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Home Contents UPDATE Award for mathematician R. BALASUBRAMANIAN, noted mathematician and Director of the Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, has been awarded the major civilian award of the French government, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite. The award was conferred on him by Claudie Haignere, the visiting French Research Minister on February 7 in New Delhi. Since the mid-1980s Balasubramanian has undertaken several fruitful collaborative work with French mathematicians, including Prof. Michel Waldschmidt from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie. He also helped to initiate an agreement between Ecole Normal Superieure of Rue d'Ulm and the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) for an exchange programme of students of the two centres. Under this programme, between four to six undergraduate Indian students undergo training at the French centre. In exchange, students in their last year at Ecole Normal Superieure give a series of lectures at the CMI. Balasubramanian has also been closely involved in the agreement signed in 1999 between the National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM) of the Department of Atomic Energy under M. S. Raghunathan of TIFR and Centre National du Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He has started a collaborative project with Universite de Lille under the framework of the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR).

29. CDTLink: Teaching Mathematics And Training Mathematicians Bourbaki, N. is a group of mostly french mathematicians, This reminds me ofthe following remark by a French mathematician in response to a question http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/link/nov2003/tm2.htm

Triannual newsletter produced by the C entre for D evelopment of ... earning INSIDE THIS ISSUE TEACHING METHODS November 2003 Vol. No. Print-Ready COVER STORY A Vision for Effective Teaching TEACHING METHODS The Contract Game Teaching Mathematics and Training Mathematicians OUTCOME-BASED EDUCATION Outcome-based Education (OBE): A New Paradigm for Learning LEARNING ISSUES Motivating Students in a Writing Class Writing Educational (Learning) Objectives to Facilitate Student Learning Collaborative Learning Online: Setting the Stage CDTL NEWS CDTL Monograph Series TLHE 2004 Welcome to CDTL/Goodbye FROM THE FACULTIES July 2005 March 2005 November 2004 July 2004 ... January 1997 Teaching Mathematics and Training Mathematicians Professor S L Lee Head, Department of Mathematics Introduction Teaching mathematics and training mathematicians are two fundamental responsibilities of a Mathematics Department. The problem of determining what to teach, how to teach and how much mathematics to teach to students is not a mathematical problem with a unique solution. It is a controversial issue, in which many mathematicians, scientists and engineers do not agree with one another. Different people hold different views and different expectations of mathematics. Although the aim of teaching mathematics in general may be different from that of training mathematicians, the two activities have an overlapping set of objectives. I will:

30. Vol20 Iss04 URL Http//www.flonnet.com/fl2004/stories that he found in 1986 in association with french mathematicians JeanMarc fruitful collaborative work with french mathematicians, including Prof. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20030228006813400.htm&d

31. Can Mathematical Meaning Allow Cultural Analysis? An Illustration Although the calculus was available to french mathematicians as early as 1684,with Leibniz’ Nova Methodus, it was only after Leibniz personally convinced http://christophe.heintz.free.fr/papers/FramingMeaningOfInfinitesim.htm

Chistophe Heintz http://christophe.heintz.free.fr Can Mathematical Meaning Allow Cultural Analysis? An Illustration Travelling Concepts II: Frame, Meaning and Metaphor , Amsterdam: ASCA Press . Although our present understanding of concepts leads us to a cultural and historical analysis of their meaning, such an analysis has rarely been explored in the domain of mathematics. It is because the discipline is believed to derive from reason only, that it is assumed that cultural analysis can have no bearing on mathematical concepts. Against this commonly held notion, I shall argue that the cultural analysis of mathematical concepts and their meaning is both possible and fruitful. Concepts are socially constructed and their meaning is the result of social interactions combined with cultural and historical phenomena. It is because scientific concepts, and in particular mathematical concepts, are no exceptions that cultural analysis can indeed take place in this purportedly most rational of domains. th -century France, is susceptible to such an approach. I will explain the social, cultural and historical context from which the concept of infinitesimals arose and analyse the social processes through which it acquired its meaning. This will also involve a comparison of cultural analysis and the traditional history of mathematics, showing that the former has much more explanatory power than the latter. Finally, I hope to demonstrate how an appropriate concept of mathematical meaning renders the cultural study of mathematics possible. In doing so I hope to show that the concept of infinitesimals, like other mathematicals, has properties that allow for a cultural analysis of their meaning.

32. Mar05web DEPARTMENT DEAD 17TH CENTURY french mathematicians Although that propertyis very interesting to mathematicians, a more useful property is that http://noether.uoregon.edu/~mathpeers/newsletter/mar05/page5.html

D EPARTMENT: D EAD TH C ENTURY F RENCH M ATHEMATICIANS th th row (as the picture shows). Although this triangle is very simple to create it actually has many complex mathematical properties hidden in it. For instance if you add up the numbers in the nth row the sum is 2 n . An example is the sum of the numbers in the 4 th row is 1 + 4 + 6 + 4 + 1=16 and 16 = 2 = a b + 6a b + b where the coefficients of the expression are 1, 4, 6, 4, 1; the 4 th by Josiah Thornton The 17 th Next Page

33. French Science And Technology Article Index - Embassy Of France In Australia 10 French mathematician wins inaugural Abel Prize 10 Fields Medal 2002 - 11Prizewinning mathematical 11 Excellence of french mathematicians confirmed http://www.ambafrance-au.org/article.php3?id_article=544

34. Focus Newspaper - Autumn 2003 french mathematicians remained aloof, not interested in his field. and several french mathematicians who did make him feel welcome during his stay. http://research.haifa.ac.il/~focus/2003-autumn/10Druzmath.html

Autumn Israel's First Druze Math Lecturer Feels at Home Here “My grandfather was a human calculator; he could do all kinds of calculations in his head. My father only went to the fourth grade, but he could do four-figure multiplication in his head. I guess I inherited their genes.” Toufik Mansour, 35, was explaining how he became the first in his community in Israel to become a university lecturer in mathematics. “I have loved math since the age of 0,” continued the University of Haifa ’s newest math teacher and researcher. His parents were more concerned that he wasn’t studying to become a doctor, as their community at the time considered a physician to be the top professional. The University played a defining role in the young Mansour’s choice of career direction. His economic situation had forced him to drop out of the Master’s program at the Technion, where he had earned his Bachelor’s in Math. After three years of working as a teacher in different schools, from elementary to high school, he returned to his higher education, but now transferred to the University. The University of Haifa , he acknowledged, opened doors for him.

35. Elsevier Author Gateway Published from 1836 by the leading french mathematicians, the Journal desMathématiques Pures et Appliquées is the second oldest international mathematical http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=600731&Precis=DESC

36. Article - Algebra - Presented By ©NewsFinder.Org - All Rights Reserved the Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel and the French mathematician algebra study were made by the french mathematicians Galois and Augustin Cauchy, http://www.newsfinder.org/comments.php?id=465_0_1_0_M

37. STAT-5021 - School Of Statistics The French mathematician PierreSimon de Laplace used the normal distribution Laplace and other french mathematicians (Poisson, Dirichlet, Cauchy) gave http://www.stat.umn.edu/~borba/stat5021/normal.html

38. Mathematics Unbound Abstracts In this period, french mathematicians not only studied German work, french mathematicians thus pursued international activities on a variety of http://www.math.virginia.edu/MathUnbound/abstracts.htm

Hermite, Darboux, and the Promotion of German Mathematics in post-1870 France Tom Archibald Acadia University (Canada) France's political transition from the Second Empire to the Third Republic was accompanied by a mathematical transition of which one remarkable feature is an increased interest in German research. In this period, French mathematicians not only studied German work, they absorbed aspects of its dominant values. The shift toward German-style pure mathematics is not mirrored in other aspects of cultural life, and special factors mediating these developments must be sought, the more so because of the anti-German sentiment in France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. In this paper, I investigate the roles of Gaston Darboux and Charles Hermite in the dissemination of German work to French audiences. This was a multifaceted effort, involving the translation and publication of both abstracts and articles, the encouragement of theses on subjects of German origin, the reform of curriculum at the Paris and elsewhere, and the cultural recognition of German mathematicians through appointments to the

39. Re: Physics Bitten By Reverse Alan Sokal Hoax? in his biography as one of the most important french mathematician. as witnesses twenty french mathematicians who will swear to that fact. http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/2003-01/msg0047248.html

Date Prev Date Next Thread Prev Thread Next ... Thread Index Re: Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Subject : Re: Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? From : igor.bogdanov@free.fr (I/G.Bogdanoff) Date : Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Approved : ebunn@richmond.edu (sci.physics.research moderator) Message-ID e8e077d9.0301020729.7aab2879@posting.google.com Newsgroups : sci.physics.research Organization : http://groups.google.com/ References Sender : ebunn@lfa222122.richmond.edu http://www.les-mathematiques.net/d/a/w/node4.php3 You will find the site of "Les Mathematiques.net" and a demonstration given by Prof. Claude Berge who was -as everyone knows- a prominent mathematician, described in his biography as "one of the most important french mathematician. He was the father of the modern graph theory." So Berge considers in his demonstration a (finite) group G acting on a set E and he writes : " Enfin, il est aisé de vérifier que l'ensemble des orbites, forme une partition de E." It is explicitly written in the above example and it shows that you are wrong when you claim that "every given orbit" would be styled in french : "n'importe quelle orbite" ou "une orbite quelqueconque". Here are three other examples : 2. Go to the course "Groupe operant sur un ensemble" : http://216.239.39.100/custom?q=cache:DHUNtcwNACgC:mapage.noos.fr

40. Age And Origin Of The Solar System Major contributions came from the french mathematicians and astronomers PierreSimon de Pierre Simon Laplace (17491827), Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813), http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/ita/05_1.shtml

Calspace Courses Part One Part Two Introduction to Astronomy Introduction to Astronomy Syllabus Introduction How Science is Done The Big Bang ... Discovery of the Galaxy 5.0 Age and Origin - Solar System 5.1 - Discovery of the Solar System 5.2 - Age of the Solar System 5.3 - Clues from Meteorites 5.4 - Clues from Comets ... Glossary: Life in Universe Discovery of the Solar System The Copernican System (Courtesy of Rice University The discovery of the solar system belongs to the period called the "Renaissance", when philosophers decided to admit nothing but observation and logic in building the science enterprise, and to reject tradition. Perhaps the best-known exponent of this new (and courageous) approach is the French mathematician, philosopher and scientist René Descartes (1596-1650). His statement "cogito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am) is symbolic for the Renaissance attitude. (Some have pointed out that you can't just think without thinking of something , so that it is impossible to start science with pure logic. Anyway, Descartes tried it and came up with lots of interesting results, and some pretty strange notions, too.) General acceptance of the sun-centered system of celestial motions took several hundred years. The main idea of the solar system was proposed by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) who said that "the Sun is the center of the Universe" and made the

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