The Cabinet de mathématiques of the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris

• Authors: Apéry François
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is a historical overview of the rich collection of mathematical models stored at the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris. The text focuses on the three main sources from the end of the nineteenth century and presents some new additions related to today’s mathematics.

Keywords

EN

mathematical models; 19th-century mathematics; 20th-century mathematics; Gaston Darboux; Joseph Caron; Théodore Olivier; the Muret collection; the Schilling collection; campylograph

PL

modele matematyczne; matematyka XIX w.; matematyka XX w.; Gaston Darboux; Joseph Caron; Théodore Olivier; kolecja Mureta; kolecja Schillinga; kampylograf

• Publisher: Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 97–108

Contributors

author

Apéry François

• University of Upper-Alsace, Mulhouse, France

References

• Apéry F., Caron’s Wooden Mathematical Objects, [in:] Mathematics and Art III, ed. by C.P. Bruter, Paris 2015, p. 39–48.
• Apéry F., Constructing Wire Models, [in:] Mathematics and Arts, ed. C. Bruter, Berlin, Heidelberg 2002, p. 179–200, DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-04909-9_21.
• Apéry F., Le campylographe, “Quadrature” no. 100, 2016, p. 24–32.
• Apéry F., Old and New Mathematical Models: Saving the Heritage of the Institut Henri Poincaré, [in:] Mathematics and Modern Art. Proceedings of the First ESMA Conference in Paris, ed. by C. Bruter, Berlin, Heidelberg 2012, p. 17–28, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-24497-1_3.
• Apéry F., The Art of the Model, [in:] The House of Mathematics, ed. by C. Villani, J.-P. Uzan and V. Moncorgé, Paris 2014, p. 130–131.
• Apéry F., The Models Chosen by Man Ray at the Institut Henri Poincaré: A Mathematician’s View, [in:] Man Ray. Human Equations, ed. by W.A. Grossman and E. Sebline, Ostfildern 2015, p. 106–109.
• Muret C., Choix de modèles en plâtre et en fil, Paris ca. 1875.
• Objets mathématiques, preface by C. Villani and J.-P. Uzan, Paris 2017.
• Schilling M., Catalog mathematischer Modelle, Leipzig 1911.

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/0023589XKHNT.20.021.12604