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Un mathématicien aux prises avec le siècle

Un mathématicien aux prises avec le siècle

Schwartz, Laurent

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Science

ISBN10: 2738104622
ISBN13: 9782738104625
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Published: Feb 25 1997
Pages: 534
Weight: 1.63
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: French
Laurent Schwartz was, along with Jean-Paul Sartre, the epitomy of the committed intellectual of post-war France. Having been awarded the Fields Medal in mathematics, he is considered one the most important mathematicians of this century. His memoirs unveil, in a most moving manner and in all sincerity, the different facets of his existence.He tells us how, when he was young, he reconstructed the whole edifice of mathematics for his personal use and how this cathedral allowed him to make his discoveries. He also tells us how he discovered TrotskyI'm before the war, at the Ecole Normal of the Rue d'Ulm and how, because of this, he didn't enlist in the Resistance, but rather hid, stopping all mathematics in order to remain on the alert. He also tells us about his militancy after the Second World War, against the wars in I'do-China, in Algeria, in Vietnam and the dictatorship in the Soviet Union.A two-facetted entity, Laurent Schwartz then worked in the reform of math teachings at all levels, from gradeschool to university, to promote the spirit of research.His memoirs allow us to discover one the most major intellectual figures of our times.

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