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Seven Concepts Attributed to Siméon-Denis Poisson
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
Siméon-Denis Poisson was 25 years old when he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the École Polytechnique in 1806. Elected to the Paris Académie des Sciences six years later,…
From Schouten to Mackenzie: notes on brackets
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
In this paper, dedicated to the memory of Kirill Mackenzie, I relate the origins and early development of the theory of graded Lie brackets, first in the publications on differenti…
The Noether theorems in context
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
I shall sketch the contents of Noether's 1918 article, "Invariante Variationsprobleme", in the context of the debate on the conservation of energy that had arisen from Einstein's g…
Beyond recursion operators
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
We briefly recall the history of the Nijenhuis torsion of (1,1)-tensors on manifolds and of the lesser-known Haantjes torsion. We then show how the Haantjes manifolds of Magri and…
Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
An account of the careers of the five women who completed a doctorate in mathematics in France before 1960 and became internationally known scientists, followed by a more general d…
Courant Algebroids. A Short History
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
The search for a geometric interpretation of the constrained brackets of Dirac led to the definition of the Courant bracket. The search for the right notion of a "double" for Lie b…