alain robbe-grillet nous offre une modalité très représentative de la mise en abyme. la mise en abyme est un procédé dans lequel un récit  est emboîté dans un autre récit. en effet, à la lecture des gommes, nous constatons qu’il a inclus l’histoire d’œdipe-roi et en a fait une intrigue policière. c’est donc à la lumière de cette micro histoire  que la tragédie grecque est démythifiée. la mise e...

T he theory of rings has deep historical roots in several of the mainstream, classical disciplines of nineteenth-century mathematics, such as the theory of algebraic number fields, the theory of algebraic functions, the theory of polynomial forms, the theory of quaternions and hypercomplex numbers, and others. The unification of all these trends reached its peak with the works of Emmy Noether (...

The five papers collected in this small volume were first presented to the Seminar on the Foundations of the Sciences at the University of Strasbourg in 1978, to mark the centenary of the death of Claude Bernard. The focus of the seminar was not, however, the work of Bernard but the development of medicine, and its relationship with science and technology, in the hundred years since 1878. Thus ...

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

W ATITH THE EXCEPTION of two translations and a few articles, the thirtysix volumes of the Histoire naturelle, geane'rale etparticuliere comprise Buffon's oeuvres completes.' They also stand as one of the great intellectual monuments of the French Enlightenment. Considering that they were written by one of the noted stylists of the century, were illustrated with hundreds of engravings, were sum...