En Matiere D’Introduction...

Miles, R. E.; Serra, J.

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R. E. Miles³ &
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Nous avons cherché à savoir comment EUFFON aurait réagi devant notre symposium, comment il voyait lui, les relations entre mathématiques et sciences naturelles. Et voici son point de vue, critique, et empreint d’un positivisme aux résonances extraordinairement contemporaines. Il l’énonce dès le début de son oeuvre, dont il consacre la fin du discours d’introduction à s’interroger sur le bon usage des mathématiques, et sur leurs abus.

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Dept of Statistics (I.A.S.), Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T., 2600, Australia
R. E. Miles
Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 35 Rue St. Honoré, 77305, Fontainebleau, France
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Miles, R.E., Serra, J. (1978). En Matiere D’Introduction.... In: Miles, R.E., Serra, J. (eds) Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93089-8_2

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