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Qu'est-ce que la recherche mathématique actuelle ?

En quoi consiste le métier d'un mathématicien ?

Sur quels problèmes travaillent les chercheurs ?

D'où leur viennent les questions qu'ils se posent ?

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Cette liste non exhaustive illustre la perplexité du grand public face à la recherche mathématique. Via son "espace grand public", mais aussi à travers son action de soutien à des initiatives de vulgarisation, la Fondation contribue à lever le voile sur ces interrogations... On trouvera ici des articles accessibles sur des thèmes mathématiques actuels, des portraits de mathématiciens, des témoignages de chercheurs...

 

Isabelle Gallagher and partial differential equations

Isabelle Gallagher's research deals with the analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE) of evolution type.

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Artur Avila and Dynamics

Artur Avila received the European Society of Mathematics Prize in 2008 for his work on dynamical systems and especially his contributions on the Teichmuller Flow and the intervals exchanges.

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Joel Lebowitz and statistical mechanics

Statistical mechanics is traditionally defined as the analysis of how the behaviour of macroscopic systems depend on the properties of the atoms and molecules which are the microscopic constituents of macroscopic systems...

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François Loeser, the art of analogies

As a mathematician with elcectic tastes, François Loeser has studied singularities, p-adic integrals, motivic integration, and model theory.

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Questions to Nalini Anantharaman and Josselin Garnier

Two young mathematicians, Nalini Anantharaman and Josselin Garnier, talk about their job. This interview was made during Maths A Venir 2009. The article is also available on Maths A Venir's website. 

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Olivier Faugeras: the call of neurosciences

Olivier Faugeras talks about the links between mathematics and neurosciences. This interview was made during Maths A Venir 2009. The article is also available on Maths A Venir's website. 

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The mathematical path of Étienne Ghys

When you ask him what his mathematical specialty is, Etienne Ghys usually answers: "I am doing mathematics"... This interview was made during Maths A Venir 2009. The article is also available on Maths A Venir's website. 

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Corinna Cortes

Corinna Cortes is head of Google Research. Discover her path in mathematics and computer science.

This interview was made during Maths A Venir 2009. The article is also available on Maths A Venir's website. 

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Math and cinema : Rite of Love and Math

Rites of Love and Math is the first movie co-directed, with Reine Graves, and acted by mathematician Edward Frenkel, the first laureate of the Foundation's Research Chair in 2008.

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"The sealed letter of soldier Vincent Doblin alias: Wolfgang Doeblin", by Marc Yor

Member of the Académie des Sciences de Paris, Professor at University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris), Marc Yor works as a researcher in the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (LPMA). "The sealed letter of soldier Vincent Doblin alias: Wolfgang Doeblin" was written by Marc Yor for publication in EMS.

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Stéphane Mallat

Researcher, businessman, ... Stéphane Mallat has more than one trick in his bag. Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, his research concerns geometry and representation of iinformation. He was a pioneer of wavelet theory.  He also created a start-up in early 2000's. He became in 2010 the new president of the Foundation's Scientific Council.

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