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Globalizations Avant la Lettre: A Comparative View of Isomorphization and Heteromorphization in an Inter-Connecting World

The academic world has undoubtedly become smaller in recent decades. Chinese-, Spanish-, English-, Arabic-, French-, Russian-, Germanand Italianspeaking academics, intellectuals, and feuilletonists discuss ‘the end of history’ or ‘the clash of civilizations.’We all seem driven by the cycles of boom and bust that govern the planetary intellectual marketplace. New concepts such as ‘modernization’...

“Mentor in Bioeconomics avant la lettre”: A tribute to Bernard Witholt by those who worked with him

Auxiliadora Prieto,1 Gerrit Eggink2 and Marcel Wubbolts3 Polymer Biotechnology Lab, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CIB), C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Wageningen University and Research Centre, AFSG, 6700AA Wageningen, The Netherlands. Royal DSM, CTO Office, Mauritslaan 49, 6129EL Urmond, The Netherlands. Bernard Witholt was appointed a professor of biochemistry at the Uni...

[Commentaire de la lettre à la rédaction de Max Goyffon « La pénurie de sérums antivenimeux »].

Nous avons lu avec beaucoup d’intérêt la lettre de Max Goyffon [2] qui expose le problème terrible de la pénurie d’antivenins dans le monde et des dizaines de milliers de morts évitables qu’elle entraine, indépendamment de l’arrêt annoncé du FAV-Afrique. Tout en abondant dans le sens du Pr Goyffon, nous aimerions ajouter quelques commentaires. Il est vrai que dans certains cas d’envenimations o...

Avant Propos

Avant-propos.

Kantorovitch's theorem gives su cient conditions for the convergence of Newton's method. We presenta full formalization of this theorem in the case of a real function. The work is accomplished inside the Coqproof assistant and it is based on the Reals library provided by the theorem prover. For the general case ofthe theorem we rst describe a way to represent concepts from multivari...