Frederic Briand

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Mathematics and literature – do you know examples of mathematical structure or concepts leading to great, enduring literary works?

Certain important writers did resort to hidden or explicit mathematical structures to construct novels that are now widely regarded as literary masterpieces. Examples include Georges Perec who,...

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If all of the biological knowledge is to be destroyed in a cataclysm and we have only one sentence to pass on, which one would contain the most information?

I was too young (alas) to attend the legendary 1961-1962 series of lectures given by Richard Feynman at CalTech. But someone who later became a good friend of mine did. And here is how Feynman-...

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Is physics-envy still the ‘curse’ of ecologists, social scientists, economists ?

Do you think that ecological, social, economic researchers- supposedly out of envy for the mathematical precision and deductive proofs mastered by physicists- abusively resort to mathematical...

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