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Portrait de Vincenzo De Risi, médaille de bronze du CNRS 2022, chargé de recherche au laboratoire Sciences philosophie histoire (SPHERE), spécialiste de l'histoire de la philosophie et des sciences, et de Kant, Euclide et Leibniz Rattaché à un laboratoire français et détenteur d'une double nationalité italienne et allemande, Vincenzo De Risi incarne la réussite d'une recherche européenne s'affranchissant des frontières. Il tisse des liens entre l'histoire de la philosophie et…

At the occasion of the bicentenary of Evariste Galois ' s birth, this film evokes the life and the work of one of the greatest mathematics genius, whose theory has revolutionized modern mathematics and physics. Born in 1811, he died at the age of 21 following a duel. He discovered the world of mathematics at the age of 16 and his papers were refused by the French Académie des Sciences. His theory started to be recognized and understood only 30 years later.

Michel Burnier, a sociologist, interviews twenty scientists from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. The number 12 of this series is dedicated to Jean-Pierre Luminet, an astrophysicist, a CNRS senior researcher, and also a writer and a poet.

Presentation by Jean-Pierre Serre at a conference on the history of 20th-century mathematics, held on January 6,7, and 8 1996 at the Faculté des Sciences in Nice. The overview summarizes the history of Galois cohomology from the early work of Schur and Brauer up through that of Chatelet, Weil, Tate, Springer, Steinberg, etc.

A man-made satellite streaks across the starry sky. At his window, a writer contemplates the meaning of this new celestial dancer in the timeless ballet of the universe. He mentions it to a mathematician friend, who tells an exciting story of knowledge assembled through the ages up to the present time.

Interviews of Henri Cartan and his wife Nicole (the daughter of the physicist Pierre Weiss), by Jean-Pierre Serre and Isabelle Broué.