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Title The Doeblin affair. My memory of Wolfgang Doeblin's «pli cacheté»
Author KAHANE Jean-Pierre
Keywords "Pli cacheté", Doeblin Wolfgang, Kolmogoroff equation, Science academy
Topics History of Mathematics, Probabilities, Stochastic Processes
Abstract In this interview, J.-P. Kahane explicits the decisive role that Bernard Bru played in the «Doeblin affair», first by discovering the existence of the «pli cacheté» submitted to the Science Academy archives by Doeblin at the very beginning of the war, later by attempting to have the «pli» opened and finally by analyzing its content.
Number 176, Winter 2006, special issue: Contribution to the history of probabilities. Tribute issue to Bernard Bru
Language   French
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Title The Doeblin affaire: Alfred, Wolfgang and some other ones. About intuition and invention in mathematics and literature
Author PETIT Marc
Keywords Consciousness/Subconscious, Döblin Alfred, Doeblin Wolfgang, Intuition and invention, Mathematics and Poetry, Probability calculus, Stochastics
Topics Epistemology, History of Mathematics
Abstract In this essay, Marc Petit, a novelist and professor of German literature, who wrote the main biography of the German probabilist Wolfgang Doeblin, son of the great novelist Alfred Döblin, pays tribute to Professor Bernard Bru, who introduced him to the history of mathematics in the XXth Century and especially to the amazing figure of Wolfgang Doeblin. In these pages, the reader will find some reflexions and comparisons dealing with the problem of intuition and invention in mathematics and poetry or literature and also several extracts of letters on this subject sent to the author by the well-known history of science specialist.
Number 176, Winter 2006, special issue: Contribution to the history of probabilities. Tribute issue to Bernard Bru
Language   French
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