Benoît RITTAUD


~Associate professor (USA)
~Lecturer senior (UK)

Université Paris-13, Sorbonne Paris Cité
Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et applications
(CNRS, UMR 7539)


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History and social impacts of mathematics


Around √2: presentation, publications
Climate change: presentation, publications
Models of exponential population growth before Malthus: presentation, publications
The pigeonhole principle: presentation, publication

List of publications by subjects


Around √2 (publications)

   
A summary of my work on this subject will be soon available in English. In the meantime, you may read the French version.


Climate change (publications)


A summary of my work on this subject will be soon available in English. In the meantime, you may read the French version.   



Models of exponential population growth before Malthus (publications)

   
A summary of my work on this subject will be soon available in English. In the meantime, you may read the French version.
   

The pigeonhole principle (publication)

   
A summary of my work on this subject will be soon available in English. In the meantime, you may read the French version.


List of publications by subjects (see here the full list of my publications)


Around √2 (presentation)

        Benoît Rittaud, "Le Fabuleux destin de √2",  Gazette de la Société mathématique de France 107 (January 2006), 28-37.

        Benoît Rittaud, Le Fabuleux destin de √2, Le Pommier (2006).

        Benoît Rittaud, "À un mathématicien inconnu !", in Regards sur les textes fondateurs de la science, Cassini (2011).


Climate change (presentation)

        Benoît Rittaud, Le Mythe climatique, Seuil (2010).

        Benoît Rittaud, "Climat, politique, pseudosciences", Actes des 3${}^e$ rencontres internationales Jules Verne (2011).

        Benoît Rittaud, "Un point de vue sceptique sur la thèse 'carbocentriste'", Science et pseudo-sciences 291 (July 2010), 43-47 .


Models of exponential population growth before Malthus (presentation)

        Benoît Rittaud & Jean-Marc Rohrbasser, Les modèles de croissance de population jusqu'au XVIII${}^e$ siècle, une archéologie des suites à croissance exponentielle, Éditions de l'INED (to appear).

        Benoît Rittaud, "Les utopies exponentielles", Actes des 4${}^e$ rencontres internationales Jules Verne (2013)  (to appear).


The pigeonhole principle (presentation)

        Albrecht Heeffer & Benoît Rittaud, "The Pigeonhole principle, two centuries before Dirichlet", The Mathematical Intelligencer 36 n°2 (June 2014), 27-29.





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