Georges Didi-Huberman, La ressemblance informe

Ressemblance entre objets

This paper presents (without formal detail) various mathematical ideas that have been used for the notion of « similar objects » in a geometric space. The most important one is the information distance. The is a notion elaborated from the concepts of the algorithmic information theory (or Kolmogorov complexity theory). It seems to be a very general and practical tool. MOTS-CLÉS : analogie, comp...

Informe Técnico / Technical Report

El informe NERA analizado

This is a review of the article"Government Preferences for Promoting Open-Source Software: A Solution in Search of A Problem"by David Evans and Bernard J. Reddy. This report was paid for by Microsoft and put together at its request. Now Microsoft is using it as part of their lobbying campaign in Europe against governments' promotion of Open Source Software. As expected, this article is strongly...

Georges de La Tour and the overaction of the superior oblique muscle.

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Univer­ sity of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Reprint requests to Hermann M. Burian, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. recumbent St. Sebastian, being treated by St. Irene. It was a night piece with the light coming from torches to the left and above,...

Balthasar - Georges Sage

Baltasar-George Sage (1740-1824), a conflictive chemist and mining engineer, and one of the last supporters of the phlogiston theory and the old chemical nomenclature, carried on a large number of metallurgical researches, discovered hypophosphoric acid and solid potassium ferrocyanide. His most achievement was the foundation of the School of Mines of Paris. LIFE AND CAREER In his biography Bal...