Schubert and Grothendieck: a bidecennial balance. (Schubert et Grothendieck: un bilan bidécennal.)
The goal of this paper is at least two-fold. First we attempt to give a survey of some recent (and developed up to the time of the Banach Center workshop Parameter Spaces, February '94) applications of the theory of symmetric polynomials and divided differences to intersection theory. Secondly, taking this opportunity, we complement the story by either presenting some new proofs of older results (and this takes place usually in the Appendices to the present paper) or providing some new results which...