Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire – UMR 7219, laboratoire SPHERE

• History and Philosophy of Mathematics, especially algebra and geometry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Symbols, notations, textual dispositifs in mathematical practice
• Epistemic values, norms, and cultures, and their role in the shaping of mathematical disciplines

• 2020 : PhD History and Philosophy of Mathematics (University of Paris)

• 2016 : MSc "LOPHISS" History and Philosophy of Science (Paris 7)
Master’s thesis : "Michel Chasles’ conception and pratice of geometry : on the attraction of ellipsoids", under the supervision of Pr. Ivahn Smadja

• 2015 : BA Philosophy (ENS Lyon - Lyon 3)

• 2015 : "Agrégation" Mathematics

• 2013 : BSc Mathematics (ENS Lyon - Lyon 1)

• 2012 : Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon

Between and 2016 2020, I taught history and philosophy of science at the University Paris-Diderot within the LOPHISS program. My teaching duties involved the following courses :

• Philosophy of science (M1)
• Introduction to philosophy (M1)
• Introduction to history of science (M1)
• History of algebra (M2)
• Philosophy of mathematics (M2)

Invited talks :

• "Conceptual change and textual practices in the reception of Chasles’ theory of characteristics", Troisièmes Rencontres Franco-Mexicaines du Séminaire Avancé d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences, Centre d’Etudes Mexicaines UNAM-Francia, Paris June 20th 2019
• "D’un trait de plume : the writing of generality in Chasles’ higher geometry", History of Mathematics Colloquium, Open University, Milton Keynes (organized by B. Stenhouse). February 21th 2019
• "The Principle of Signs in Chasles’ Higher Geometry : Simplicity, Generality, Expressivity", Simplicity Seminar, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, October 12th 2018
• "Une proposition ’tantôt vraie, tantôt fausse’ : Autour de la controverse Chasles-De Jonquières", Journée de la RHM, Institut Henri Poincaré, December 1st 2017
• "Euclid’s Porisms Lost and Regained ? Ancient Traditions, Modern Reconstructions", workshop coorganized with Zeinab Karimian and Ivahn Smadja, Research School, GDR "Histoire des Mathématiques", CIRM, November 9th 2017

Conference papers :

• "Euclid at a Crossroads. On Chasles’ Interpretation of Euclid’s Lost Porisms", joint paper with I. Smadja, Workshop ’Greek Geometrical Analysis. Problems and Prospect’, Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (organized by S. Gandon & G. Longa), March 6th 2020
• "Zero will tear us apart : negative numbers, geometrical exactness, and the applicability of algebra in 19th-century French mathematics", BSHM ’Research in Progress’ Conference, Oxford (organized by C. Hollings & B. Stenhouse), February 29th 2020
• "Historical Geometry : Chasles as an historian and practitioner of mathematics", 1st ESHS Young Scholars Conference, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, September 11th 2019
• "Avatars of generality : On the circulation and transformation of list-making practices in the context of enumerative geometry", 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague. Part of a symposium on ’Communication and exchanges among scientific cultures’ (organized by Nina Atanasova, Karine Chemla, Peeter Müürsepp & Vitaly Pronskikh), August 10th 2019
• "Equations without algebra : on Chasles’ principle of signs", British Society for the History of Science - Postgraduate Conference, Cambridge. Speaker and organizer for a panel on notational innovations in the history of mathematics, with A. Steensen & B. Stenhouse, April 10th 2019
• "Numbers as symbols, numbers as concepts", Novembertagung 2018, Sevilla, November 30th 2018
• "On the Permanent Reshaping of Mathematical Objects,", ESHS Biennal Conference, London, September 16th 2018
• "Epistemological and Ontological Shifts in the Development of Enumerative Geometry", Novembertagung 2017, Bruxelles, 2 Novembre 2017
• "On Chasles’ geometrical theory of attraction", Workshop "Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age", Sevilla, September 19th 2017

Public outreach :

• Le concept de Révolution Scientifique : enjeux historiographiques, politiques, philosophiques. Introductory lecture on the history of science for high-school and undergraduate students, Lycée Pothier, Orléans (organized by C. Dossa & É. Tardy), February 13th 2020
• Radio talk show on public channel France Culture, entitled "L’affaire Vrain Lucas : L’Empereur des géomètres et le Prince des faussaires", broadcast on 26 March 2017.
• Introductory lectures on the philosophy of mathematics for high-school students, Lycée Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué, Sélestat (67), 2015-2018

Articles :

• "Mathematical Selves in the Shaping of Mathematical Modernism. The circulation and disputation of Chasles’ formula", Isis, forthcoming (March)
• "The values of simplicity and generality in Chasles’ geometrical theory of attraction", Journal of General Philosophy of Science, Special Issue on Newtonian Mechanics (eds. J. Ferreiròs & M. de Pàz), vol.51 (2020), pp.115-146

Reviews :

• R. Dedekind & H. Weber : Théorie des fonctions algébriques d’une variable. Traduction introduite et annotée par E. Haffner, Revue d’Histoire des Sciences, forthcoming
• S.Gandon & I.Smadja (eds.), Philosophie des mathématiques : Logique, preuve et pratiques, Revue d’Histoire des Sciences, 2018/2, Tome 71, pp.329-330.