Histoire, événement, parole

Histoire Des Mathématiques

T he theory of rings has deep historical roots in several of the mainstream, classical disciplines of nineteenth-century mathematics, such as the theory of algebraic number fields, the theory of algebraic functions, the theory of polynomial forms, the theory of quaternions and hypercomplex numbers, and others. The unification of all these trends reached its peak with the works of Emmy Noether (...

Histoire de l'alcoolisme

The five papers collected in this small volume were first presented to the Seminar on the Foundations of the Sciences at the University of Strasbourg in 1978, to mark the centenary of the death of Claude Bernard. The focus of the seminar was not, however, the work of Bernard but the development of medicine, and its relationship with science and technology, in the hundred years since 1878. Thus ...

Histoire de la Médecine

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

The PAROLE Program

The PAROLE project (Contract LE2-4017) was launched in May 1996 by the Commission of the European Communities, at the initiative of the DG XIII (Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research). PAROLE is not just a project for gathering and creating a corpus. We are creating a true architectural model whose riches and quality will constitute strategic assets for European li...

Scientific parole, a proposal.