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La courbe comme phénomène technique au xviie siècle
Cahiers François Viète, 2002 In the 17th century, technical problems were tackled by scientists, all leading to the determination of an unknown curve. We examine three of these problems, to show that they were instigators of “new mathematics”.
Evelyne Barbin
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Les sciences des causes passées
Cahiers François Viète, 2005 This volume is the result of a colloquium that took place in two sessions. The first session was devoted to the history of certain palaetiological sciences: the aim was to identify these sciences, to understand how and when they were born, and to study ...
Gabriel Gohau, Stéphane Tirard
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Le programme de Gödel et la subjectivité mathématicienne
Cahiers François Viète, 2003 The aim of this article is to highlight a Gödelian programme, following the formalist programme. The theorems of 1931, on the incompleteness of elementary arithmetic, mark the failure of the formalist programme as formulated by Hilbert.
Pierre Cassou-Noguès
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Pourquoi et comment Proclus commentait-il Euclide ?
Cahiers François Viète, 2003 In this article I focus on Proclus of Lycia’s Commentary on the first book of Euclid’s Elements. I propose an interpretation that takes into account the context in which it was written and that I introduce in two steps.
Alain Bernard
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Cahiers François Viète, 2003 The question “What is life?” has not always had the same importance, nor has it always received the same answers. It was eclipsed in the mid-twentieth century by the development of the molecular view of life.
Michel Morange
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Cahiers François Viète, 2016 The book Die Entwicklung der Pflanzensubstanz, physiologisch, chemisch und mathematisch dargestellt (1819) contains a consequently developed research programme and methodological meditation on the organisation and classification of organic substances ...
Maarten Bullynck
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Charles Ange Laisant (1841 – 1920) : la mathématique, philosophie – enseignement
Cahiers François Viète, 2011 La Mathématique, Philosophie-Enseignement by Charles Ange Laisant, published in 1898, marks the beginning of a new period in the work of this mathematician.
Jérôme Auvinet
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La Théorie des Marées d'Isaac Newton
Cahiers François Viète, 2015 In this paper we follow Newton's reasoning for his theory of the ebb and flow of the sea. We show how he reaches the terrestrial phenomenon of the tides by taking a side step through the inequalities of the Moon's motion and how he quantifies the tidal ...
Vincent Deparis
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L’objectivité mathématique selon A. Lautman : entre idées dialectiques et réalité physique
Cahiers François Viète, 2003 Despite his inclusion in the questioning spaces of the “French-style” epistemology initiated by Brunschvic idealism, and his plural affinities with Cavaillès, Albert Lautman (1908-1944), who was very aware of the science of his time, developed a ...
Emmanuel Barot
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Viète sur l’angle de contact ou la postérité d’un isolé
Cahiers François Viète, 2011 This article studies the chapter that Viète devoted to the comic angle in Book VIII of the Varied Answers. On the fringes of a debate that gave rise to various interpretations and numerous publications in the second half of the 16th century, Viète ...
François Loget
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