Magali Le Mens, Modernité hermaphrodite : art, histoire, culture

Culture, Cloaked in Mens Rea

Proof beyond reasonable doubt of the mens rea or state of mind associated with a particular crime is a requirement for the successful prosecution of all criminal defendants under our system of justice. In the legal jargon, it is part of the prosecution’s prima facie case. Concomitantly, criminal defendants may successfully challenge the case against them on the ground (among others) that the pr...

Le droit du numérique : une histoire à préserver

Although the history of informatics is recent, this field poses unusual problems with respect to its preservation. These problems are amplified by legal issues, digital law being in itself a subject matter whose history is also worth presenting in a computer science museum. The purpose of this paper is to present a quick overview of the evolution of law regarding digital matters, from an histor...

Insanity, Art and Culture

Insanity, Art and Culture

He sets out to examine the paintings of psychotics, to see if the symptoms shown are due to the illness alone or possibly to cultural background and secondly, whether the symptomatic significance is of universal or irrelevant character. In the course of the investigation various artistic mediums such as sculptoring, needlework and painting are studied. It is very necessary that in a concisely w...

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 (...