Jean Dhombres

Jean Dhombres

Jean Dhombres (born August 27, 1942 in Paris ) is a French mathematician and mathematician .

Dhombres studied from 1962 at the École polytechnique and received his doctorate from the University of Paris VI with a thesis on functional analysis . From 1965 he did research for the CNRS and was Maître de conférences at the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (Supaero) from 1964 to 1971 . From 1972 he was at the University of Nantes , from 1980 to 1988 as a professor, and then Directeur d´Ètudes at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He was also the research director of the CNRS and from 1988 to 1996 director of its Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology (UPR 21). He is at the Center Alexandre Koyré.

From 1972 to 1974 he also taught at the École des ponts et chaussées, was visiting professor in Bangkok from 1971/72, in 1974 at the University of Singapore, in 1975 at the University of Waterloo , from 1976 to 1978 at the University of Ottawa (and was also a scientific advisor to the French Embassy) and 1980/81 at the University of Wuhan in China. In 1998 he was visiting professor at the TU Berlin, 1999 in Berkeley, 1999/2000 in Geneva, 2002/03 and 2008 at the National University of Mexico and in 2004 he was at the research center of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC

From 1980 to 1985 he was director of the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in Nantes and from 1985 to 1995 he was director of the Center for the History of Science at the University of Nantes (Center Francois Viéte).

Among other things, he dealt with the history of functional analysis and the early days of analysis in the 16th and 17th centuries (collaboration on the edition of Johann I Bernoulli's work ), with mathematicians' networks and the history of institutions (such as the Collège de France in its early days) , Grégoire de Saint-Vincent , Lazare Carnot , Pierre-Simon de Laplace and Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra and Mathematics in France at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

He is the founder of the journal Sciences et Techniques en Perspective (Blanchard), 1983 to 1995 editor of Cahiers d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences, from 2000 of the Revue d´histoire des sciences and co-editor of Historia Mathematica.

He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (1997) and Knight of the Ordre national du mérite (1978), received the Prix de l'Académie des Sciences in 1999 and the Grand Prix Roberval in 2000. 1983 to 1987 he was President of the Societé francaise d'histoire des sciences and he was President of the French UNESCO Commission.

Fonts

• Nombre, mesure et continu. Epistemologie et histoire. Cedic, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-7124-0710-5 .
• with Amy Dahan-Dalmédico , Rudolph Bkouche, Christian Houzel , Hélène Guillemot: Mathématiques au fil des âges. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-04-016448-0 .
• with János Aczél : Functional equations in several variables (= Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications. 31). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1989, ISBN 0-521-35276-2 (2nd edition, ibid 2006).
• with Nicole Dhombres: Naissance d'un pouvoir. Sciences et savants en France. 1793-1824. Payot, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-228-88107-4 .
• with Nicole Dhombres: Lazare Carnot. Fayard, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-213-02579-7 .
• Shadows of a Circle, or What is There to be Seen? Some Figurative Discourses in the Mathematical Sciences during the Seventeenth Century. In: Lyle Massey (Ed.): The Treatise on Perspective. Published and Unpublished (= Studies in the History of Art. 59 = Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Symposium Papers. 36) Yale University Press et al., New Haven CT et al. 2003, ISBN 0-300-09756-5 , pp. 177-211.
• with Patricia Radelet-de Grave : Une mécanique donnée à voir. Les thèses illustrées défendues à Louvain en juillet 1624 by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent SJ (= De diversis artibus. 82 = NS 45). Brepols, Turnhout 2009, ISBN 978-2-503-52517-4 .
• Le jet d'eau et l'arc-en-ciel à l'âge baroque: réalisation des mathématiques, mathématisation de la philosophie naturelle et représentation des phénomènes. In: Frédéric Cousinié, Clélia Nau (ed.): L'artiste et le philosophe. L'histoire de l'art à l'épreuve de la philosophie au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international, 19 to 22 September 2007, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art - Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot. Presses Universitaires de Rennes et al., Rennes et al. 2011, ISBN 978-2-7535-1322-8 , pp. 151-196.
• with Carlos Alvarez: Une histoire de l'imaginaire mathématique. Vers le théorème fondamental de l'algèbre et sa demonstration par Laplace en 1795. Hermann, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7056-8192-0 .
• Une déconstruction d'une histoire des limites, de François Viète aux ultrafiltres. In: Jackie Pigeaud (ed.): La limite. XVIes Entretiens de la Garenne Lemot. Presses Université de Rennes, Rennes 2012, ISBN 978-2-7535-2052-3 , pp. 77–110.
• De l'écriture des mathématiques en tant que technique de l'intellect. In: Eric Guichard (ed.): Écritures. Sur les traces de Jack Goody. Colloque. Presses de l'ENSSIB, Villeurbanne 2012, ISBN 979-10-91281-00-3 , pp. 157-198.
• as editor with Serge Sochon, Suzanne Débarbat: Pierre-Simon de Laplace. 1749-1827. Le parcours d'un savant. Hermann, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-7056-8273-6 .
• with Pierre Cartier , Gerhard Heinzman , Cédric Villani : Mathématiques en liberté. La ville brûle, Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) 2012, ISBN 978-2-36012-026-0 .
• with Carlos Alvarez: Une histoire de l'invention mathématique. Les demonstrations classiques du théorème fondamental de l'algèbre dans le cadre de l'analyse réelle et de l'analyse complexe de Gauss à Liouville, Paris, Hermann, 2013.

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