Courte vie de Malcolm Walker (extraits)

Histoire de la notion de vie

but it has also involved a narrowing of the perspective. Few subjects more certainly demand an international perspective than war. To mention only a couple of facts that support this remark, let me remind the reader that: (1) as the aggressive interpretation of Darwinism was often presented as a typical German craze, something more should have been said on Germany at least; (2) there were natio...

Une courte démonstration de la formule de Campbell-Hausdorff

We give a simple proof of an algorithm for computing the terms of the Campbell-Hausdorff formula. 2000 AMS Subject Classification: Primary: 22E15; Secondary: 22E60 Soient G un groupe de Lie et g = T1G son algèbre de Lie, vue comme l’espace tangent à G en l’élément neutre 1. Alors il existe un voisinage V de 0 dans g et un voisinage U de 1 dans G tels que la restriction de l’application exponent...

Methodes d'estimation de durees de vie de contrats d'assurances automobiles

En France, l’assurance automobile est un marché mature avec un faible taux de croissance. De plus, s’agissant d’un secteur convoité, de nouveaux intervenants (banques-assurances, les acteurs de la grande distribution . . .) viennent rejoindre les acteurs traditionnels. Confrontés à une forte concurrence exacerbée par la quasi-stabilité du parc automobile assurable, et face aux mutations importa...

Éditorial: Informatique et qualité de vie

L'explication dans les sciences de la vie

his statement "Whether Greek is compulsory or not, Latin cannot be omitted from a good education" would receive other than partial support. He would have mourned the eclipse of King James I's version of the Bible by modern translations. This essay is of broad interest and can be recommended to all medical practitioners. It could be profitably entered into the already overcrowded undergraduate c...