Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes ? Au premier abord, la question peut paraître surprenante, voire provocante. En réalité, Paul Veyne, grand historien du monde gréco-romain, nous démontre qu'elle n'a pas de sens, la vérité étant elle-même historique.
En effet, à travers l'exemple de la civilisation grecque, cet ouvrage étudie les idées que nous nous faisons de la vérité. On considère généralement qu'elle ne peut être qu'une, la même pour tout le monde. Or, Paul Veyne démontre à partir d'exemples très simples que les mêmes personnes peuvent considérer comme vraies des choses contradictoires ; ou que des personnes de la même époque peuvent avoir des conceptions différentes de la vérité. Au fond, ils ne trouvent pas la vérité, mais ils la créent.
Cet essai, dérangeant parce qu'il ébranle nos plus intimes convictions, est une invitation à réfléchir sur notre propre système de vérité. --Gaëtane Guillo

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős is a 1993 documentary directed by George Paul Csicsery about the life of mathematician Paul Erdős.
Erdős himself appears in the film. As of 2007, using the official cast list in the credits, it gives Erdős a Bacon number (and thus Erdős-Bacon number) of 4. However, Sir Alec Guinness, identified by name by the narrator, appears in the film, getting an honorary doctorate with Erdős; his presence would give Erdős a Bacon number of 3. Since Frost/Nixon was released in late 2008, Erdős has a Bacon number of 3 through official credits.

The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler gives an article-by-article description of Leonhard Euler s early mathematical works, the 50 or so mathematical articles he wrote before he left St. Petersburg in 1741 to join the Academy of Frederick the Great in Berlin. These early pieces contain some of Euler s greatest work, the Königsberg bridge problem, his solution to the Basel problem, and his first proof of the Euler-Fermat theorem. It also presents important results that we seldom realize are due to Euler; that mixed partial derivatives are (usually) equal, our f(x) notation, and the integrating factor in differential equations. The books shows how contributions in diverse fields are related, how number theory relates to series, which, in turn, relate to elliptic integrals and then to differential equations. There are dozens of such strands in this beautiful web of mathematics. At the same time, we see Euler grow in power and sophistication, from a young student when at 18 he published his first work on differential equations (a paper with a serious flaw) to the most celebrated mathematician and scientist of his time. It is a portrait of the world s most exciting mathematics between 1725 and 1741, rich in technical detail, woven with connections within Euler s work and with the work of other mathematicians in other times and places, laced with historical context.

历史是什么？历史是一种科学吗？历史学家是否应该致力于建立一种理论体系？在回答上述问题的过程中，本书对历史的本质与目的、历史学与社会学的关系、福柯所引起的历史学革命等问题进行了深入地分析与探讨，对我们建立一种超越文本与材料的新型历史观颇具启发意义。

这本诗集收有策兰1944年至1952年间写的作品，其中有极具影响的《死亡赋格》，那种神奇的抒情基调，有着法国诗歌的光辉、巴尔干半岛的魅力以及忧郁的转调。其诗作风格中引人入胜的节奏、浪漫化的隐喻和热情奔放的魔力使得这本诗集的重要性不言而喻，这种无与伦比的创造力，使得诗人能把现代法语抒情诗的某些原则译入了德语，嘲笑了一般逻辑思维的自以为是，调动起梦想的真理塑造现实。

This is a book exploring the questions of modern physics such as why does maths, an abstract system of logic invented by man prove to be so useful in understanding the laws of nature?