“…The principal architects of this story -- the French philosopher and University of Paris reformer Peter Ramus, and his critic, the young Oxford astronomy lecturer Henry Savile – worked out diametrically opposed models for the development of the mathematical arts, models of historical progress and decline which mirrored each scholar’s larger convictions about the nature of mathematical thinking, the purpose of the modern university, and the potential of the human mind. …”

“…Robert is Professor of Statistics in the Applied Mathematics Department at the Université Paris Dauphine, and Head of the Statistics Laboratory at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) of the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) in Paris. …”

“…Inspired by the Bourbaki seminar in mathematics in its organization, hence nicknamed “Bourbaphi”, the Poincar ́ e Seminar is held twice a year at the Institut Henri Poincar ́ e in Paris, with cont- butions prepared in advance. Particular care is devoted to the pedagogical nature of the presentations so as to ful?…”

“…Au printemps 1895, Marcel Dourgnon fit partie des quatre lauréats ex aequo au concours du musée des Antiquités du Caire, et réalisa également le pavillon de l’Égypte pour l’Exposition universelle de Paris de 1900.…”

“…Este libro trata sobre el matemático francés Carlos María de La Condamine y su empeño por levantar en la llanura de Yaruquí, cerca de Quito, un monumento conmemorativo de la expedición enviada por la Academia de Ciencias de París al virreinato del Perú, para poner fin al problema de la forma de la tierra que había obsesionado a los científicos europeos durante casi cien años. …”