Playlist · 91 episodes

De l'abaque à l'IA

Des tablettes de Babylone aux sangaku d'Edo, des quipus des Andes aux bâtons de Napier : les mathématiques ont toujours voyagé sans passeport — suivez les caravanes.

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Episodes (91)

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Sak Tahn Waax: a signature rediscovered after twelve centuries
Jul 31, 2026 · 6 min
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8 cm, twenty columns: a papyrus scroll digitally unwrapped
Jul 9, 2026 · 6 min
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When playing cards trained sailors and engineers Premium
Jul 3, 2026 · 23 min
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Archimedes: Tracing the Lost Leaf Found in Blois
Jun 29, 2026 · 6 min
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Vedic altars: when ritual becomes geometry Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 20 min
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Descartes: why did his science need God?
Jun 8, 2026 · 26 min
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Newton: why does absolute space lead to the divine? Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 20 min
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Yi Jing, a divination text: Leibniz’s binary investigation Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 22 min
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Qibla: does a round Earth challenge our flat maps? Premium
Jun 8, 2026 · 21 min
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Gladys West: the hidden career behind GPS accuracy
Apr 30, 2026 · 6 min
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Trillion: why does its value differ between countries? Premium
Apr 22, 2026 · 20 min
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Archimedes and sand: can we put a number on the universe? Premium
Apr 22, 2026 · 16 min
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Plato’s Theaetetus: two approaches to the stopping point at √17 Premium
Feb 14, 2026 · 24 min
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Cédric Aubouy: why mix maths with the absurd?
Feb 14, 2026 · 22 min
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Gabriel Cramer: two appendices that left a mark on algebra Premium
Feb 14, 2026 · 23 min
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Gabriel Cramer: the quiet editorial work that led to Euler Premium
Feb 13, 2026 · 21 min
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Official statistics: why do governments count us? Premium
Feb 13, 2026 · 20 min
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Hypatia: tracing the works that bear no signature Premium
Feb 11, 2026 · 19 min
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Two medieval women scholars rescued from obscurity Premium
Feb 10, 2026 · 5 min
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Women in medieval maths: everywhere in art, rare in practice Premium
Feb 10, 2026 · 19 min

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