Book Review: Jean-François Lyotard, Pourquoi philosopher?

M. Jean-François DELMAS directeur de thèse

In this thesis, we study continuum tree-valued processes. First, we define anabstract framework for these processes, by constructing a metric on the space of locally com-pact, complete R-trees, endowed with a locally finite Borel measure. This topology, calledGromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov topology, allows for the definition of tree-valued Markov pro-cesses. We then give a new const...

[Jean François Marie Aicardi (1926-2015)].

Jean - François Laslier and M . Remzi

As the readers of this journal may not ignore, Approval Voting (AV) is a voting system where voters can “approve” as many candidates as they want and the winner is the candidate approved by the largest number of voters. Since the publication of the seminal book written by Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn in 1983, a very large number of studies have been devoted to various aspects of this voting ...

Charcot's son, commander Jean-Baptiste Charcot: from neurology to "Pourquoi Pas?".

Charcot name became very famous around the world, firstly because of the work of Professor Jean-Martin Charcot, the founder of Clinical Neurology, and, secondly, because of his son, Jean-Baptiste, the world famous maritime explorer.

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