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Fermat’s Last Theorem
Via: neuraldump.com: Fermat’s Last Theorem
Interessant a regarder non pas pour la vulgarisation du probleme, mais plutot l’histoire derriere le travail de Wiles et les interactions avec les autres mathematiciens.
Mathematically Correct Breakfast — Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel
Goldman’s Fabrice Tourre: Much more than a faceless math whiz
theglobeandmail.com: Goldman’s Fabrice Tourre: Much more than a faceless math whiz
Fabrice Tourre has led a life most mathematicians can only dream about – ski trips to fancy resorts, a $2-million annual salary and at least a couple of girlfriends in exotic European cities.
In one e-mail sent to a girlfriend in January, 2007, he lamented that he had to “mentor others, in view of the fact that I am now considered a ‘dinosaur’ … I feel like I’m losing my mind and I’m only 28!!! OK, I’ve decided two more years of work and I’m retiring.”
Liberte 30! C’est mieux que mon but de liberte 35! Ca sera peut-etre Prison 30 😉
Nature by Numbers
Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.
Key Letter By Descartes Found After 170 Years
Key Letter By Descartes Found After 170 Years
“[T]housands of treasured documents… vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician. Among them were 72 letters by René Descartes… Now one of those purloined letters has turned up at a small private college in eastern Pennsylvania… The letter, dated May 27, 1641, concerns the publication of Meditations on First Philosophy, a celebrated work whose use of reason and scientific methods helped to ignite a revolution in thought.”
Un commentaire rigolo sur slashdot:
> can we have the text please? (Preferably in a human language)
Sorry, it’s written in French.
Female teachers transmit math anxiety to female students
arstechnica.com: Female teachers transmit math anxiety to female students
Teachers with high math anxiety were shown to have a significant effect on the math achievement and stereotypes of their female students. Girls with anxious teachers scored lower on math achievement tests at the end of the year than girls with more confident teachers—the more anxious the teacher, the more likely girls were to confirm the stereotype that girls have less math ability when they took the year-end tests.
Doit-on traduire “Teachers with high math anxiety” par “professeurs incompetents” par hasard?
Via: dvorak.org: Why can’t girls learn math? Because our teachers don’t know math!