Teaching of economical statistics (1885–1925). Presentation of some documents. (Enseignement de la statistique économique (1885–1925). Présentation de quelques documents.)
Teorie množin, její vznik a vývoj
Textes & documents - Opposition to the boycott of german mathematics in the early 1920s: letters by Edmund Landau (1877–1938) and Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964)
This paper, through the publication of two of their letters, sheds light on the political positions of two influential mathematicians of the first half of the 20th century, the German Edmund Landau and the American Edwin Bidwell Wilson. It provides substantial evidence for the widespread rejection of the political boycott of German mathematics not only by the Germans but also by the community of American mathematicians in the early 1920s.
The axiomatic melting point. Teaching probability theory in Prague during the 1930's.
The beginning of the French-Czechoslovakian relations, seen from the correspondence of Hostinský and Fréchet. (Le début des relations mathématiques franco-tchécoslovaques vu à travers la correspondance Hostinský-Fréchet.)
The biological stimulus to multidimensional data analysis.
The calcul of probability and the method of majority. (Le calcul des probabilités et la méthode des majorités.)
The clandestine opinion polls in the occupied France. (Les sondages d'opinon clandestins dans la France occupée.)
The conception of socialist calculus: statistics in the USSR within the thirties. (Former au calcul socialiste: statistiques en URSS des années 1930.)
The contributions of Hilbert and Dehn to non-archimedean geometries and their impact on the italian school
In this paper we investigate the contribution of Dehn to the development of non-Archimedean geometries. We will see that it is possible to construct some models of non-Archimedean geometries in order to prove the independence of the continuity axiom and we will study the interrelations between Archimedes’ axiom and Legendre’s theorems. Some of these interrelations were also studied by Bonola, who was one of the very few Italian scholars to appreciate Dehn’s work. We will see that, if Archimedes’...
The correspondence between Beppo Levi and Mischa Cotlar. The first publications of Cotlar.
The Correspondence between Georg Cantor and Philip Jourdain.
The education of Jean André Ville.
The emergence of french probabilistic statistics. Borel and the Institut Henri Poincaré around the 1920s
This paper concerns the emergence of modern mathematical statistics in France after the First World War. Emile Borel’s achievements are presented, and especially his creation of two institutions where mathematical statistics was developed: the Statistical Institute of Paris University, (ISUP) in 1922 and above all the Henri Poincaré Institute (IHP) in 1928. At the IHP, a new journal Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré was created in 1931. We discuss the first papers in that journal dealing with...
The growth of mathematical culture in the Lvov area in the autonomy period (1870–1920) [Book]
The Hausdorff-Young Theorems of Fourier Analysis and Their Impact.
The Japanese contributions to martingale theory.
The Jordan Curve Theorem Revisited.
The Kantorovich metric: the initial history and little-known applications.
The mathematician Hugo Ribeiro.