Archives of symbol - Puissance & Raison

Cantor’s Body (a reading of Grundlagen)

The mathematician Georg Cantor published “Grundlagen…” in 1883, a major text of which we propose another reading.

27 July 2024

According to some researchers, the largest chatbots somehow “understand” the texts they handle. What exactly does this mean?

3 February 2024

Mathematic threads numbers without any limit, up to infinity and beyond. Ultrafinitism, by refuting this “right”, isn’t it mistaken?

11 March 2023

In the footsteps of the mathematician-philosopher René Thom, we set out to meet these “singularities” that seem to escape the digital grip.

20 March 2021

Why are there so few women in the higher reaches of mathematics? Review of this old and difficult question.

8 August 2018

Autopoiesis, enaction and possibility of an artificial life … The lessons of the philosopher and neurobiologist Francisco Varela.

18 February 2018

Puissance & Raison is a kind of “exploration notebook” about the new digital world questioning what resists, what capitulates. Here some insights…

10 February 2018

A daring parallel brings us back to Babylonian times. Do our algorithms play a role comparable to the old clay tablets?

21 November 2017

Liu Hui, 3rd century Chinese mathematician, overcame one of the first mathematical “monsters”: the irrational number.

19 August 2017