The lives of mathematical prodigies who passed away very early after groundbreaking work invoke a fascination for later generations: The early death of Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) from ill health after a sled trip to visit his fiancé for Christmas; the obscure circumstances of Evariste Galois’ (1811–1832) duel; the deaths of consumption of Gotthold Eisenstein (1823–1852) (who sometimes lectur...

We give some lectures on the work on formal logic of Jacques Herbrand, and sketch his life and his influence on automated theorem proving. The intended audience ranges from students interested in logic over historians to logicians. Besides the well-known correction of Herbrand’s False Lemma by Gödel and Dreben, we also present the hardly known unpublished correction of Heijenoort and its conseq...

This article proposes an idealized model of direct-inverse systems inspired by canonical morphology, against which attested systems are then evaluated in terms of their deviation from it. A language-independent definition of obviation is provided, and then applied to language families other than Algonquian. Referential hierarchies are shown not to be the only way of accounting for direct-invers...

Earlier this year, Banchereau received the Dana Foundation–American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Award in Human Immunology Research for his innovative studies on treatments for maladies such as lupus, juvenile arthritis, and cancer. In collaborative efforts, he has pinpointed cytokines that underlie disease. He's found, for example, that interferon (IFN)-␣ drives autoimmunity in lupus (1)...

Jean-Jacques Laffont, economist extraordinaire and visionary founder of the Institut de l’Economie Industrielle (IDEI) in Toulouse, died at his home in Colomiers on May 1 after a valiant battle against cancer. He was fifty-seven years old. Laffont is remarkable for having had three distinct professional identities and for performing at the very highest level in all of them. First, he was one of...

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jean-jacques rousseau, écrivain illustre et philosophe révolutionnaire de l’âge des lumières, a recouru pendant les dernières années de sa vie à l’écriture des ouvrages autobiographiques. il y refléta le véritable portrait de soi-même grâce à une mémoire encombrée de souvenirs tumultueux. son œuvre autobiographique qui comprend les confessions, les dialogues et les rêveries du promeneur solitai...

Abstract Review article on Jacques Berlinerblau's Secularism: the Basics .