Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738186440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738186440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Debates in the Senate in Its Session of 1853-[1854].
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Author: Louisiana. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
Emulation
Author: Thomas CrowPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300117394
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This fascinating and elegant book tells the story of five painters at the center of events in Revolutionary France: Jacques-Louis David and his first cohort of precocious pupils, including the meteoric Jean-Germain Drouais and the astonishingly gifted but deeply troubled Anne-Louis Girodet. Written by a major art historian, it interprets in a new and original way the relationships between these men and the paintings they created. This new edition includes a revised introduction and incorporates the fruit of recent new research. "Crow combines excellent formal and stylistic analysis of particular paintings with close attention to the psychological complexities and political and social contexts of the artists’ lives. He delves deeply into David’s and his students’ thematic choices, compositional strategies and personal relations in order to make his overarching political and aesthetic arguments.”--Lynn Hunt, New Republic "A magisterial contribution to the history of art.”--Richard Cobb, The Spectator
The Studio
Author: Journals
Author: Canada. Legislature. Legislative AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Le Guide Musical
Author: Scientific Agriculture
Author: Revue Agronomique Canadien
Author: Paul Lévy and Maurice Fréchet
Author: Marc BarbutPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447156196
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The fascinating correspondence between Paul Lévy and Maurice Fréchet spans an extremely active period in French mathematics during the twentieth century. The letters of these two Frenchmen show their vicissitudes of research and passionate enthusiasm for the emerging field of modern probability theory. The letters cover various topics of mathematical importance including academic careers and professional travels, issues concerning students and committees, and the difficulties both mathematicians met to be elected to the Paris Academy of Sciences. The technical questions that occupied Lévy and Fréchet on almost a daily basis are the primary focus of these letters, which are charged with elation, frustration and humour. Their mathematical victories and setbacks unfolded against the dramatic backdrop of the two World Wars and the occupation of France, during which Lévy was obliged to go into hiding. The clear and persistent desire of these mathematicians to continue their work whatever the circumstance testifies to the enlightened spirit of their discipline which was persistent against all odds. The book contains a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the central topics of the correspondence. The original text of the letters is also annotated by numerous footnotes for helpful guidance. Paul Lévy and Maurice Fréchet will be useful to anybody interested in the history of mathematics in the twentieth century and, in particular, the birth of modern probab ility theory.
Mathematicians at war
Author: Laurent MazliakPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048127408
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Numerous scientists have taken part in the war effort during World War I, but few gave it the passionate energy of the prominent Italian mathematician Volterra. As a convinced supporter of the cause of Britain and France, he struggled vigorously to carry Italy into the war in May 1915 and then developed a frenetic activity to support the war effort, going himself to the front, even though he was 55. This activity found an adequate echo with his French colleagues Borel, Hadamard and Picard. The huge correspondence they exchanged during the war, gives an extraordinary view of these activities, and raises numerous fundamental questions about the role of a scientist, and particularly a mathematician during WW I. It also offers a vivid documentation about the intellectual life of the time ; Volterra’s and Borel’s circles in particular were extremely wide and the range of their interests was not limited to their field of specialization. The book proposes the complete transcription of the aforementioned correspondence, annotated with numerous footnotes to give details on the contents. It also offers a general historical introduction to the context of the letters and several complements on themes related to the academic exchanges between France and Italy during the war.