IC16: Evolution Of The Mathematical Journal Quadrature (1989-2016)
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Transcript: English(auto-generated)
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First, I would like to thank the organizing committee
00:23
and the imaginary for giving me the opportunity to present you the Mathematica Journal Qua Drature. It's a French publication. Of course, it's very different from the medias we have seen before this morning
00:41
because it's much more classical. It's paper print, it's quarterly, but it was created in 1989 by a teacher, Jean-Pierre Boudin, who is now retired, he lives near Marseille. And I think that the fact we are still alive
01:01
proves that there is a public for this kind of media. Well, our public is very diversified, but mostly people would like to enter the stuff, to enter in the equations and to really practice maths.
01:23
And so rather different from the public we've seen before. Well, we publish original math articles and we have three regular rubrics. Texts en question, it's a rubric about the history of maths, problems corner,
01:44
and rubric of surveys. I would like to emphasize that it's possible to interactively live with the readers, even with a paper.
02:03
But as the journal is quarterly, of course the delay is much more important. So in this rubrics for the history of mathematics, in every issue there is a question. And the readers have to make inquiries
02:22
to look in ancient texts and their contributions are published in the next issue. It's the same for the problems corner, with Olympiad problems. This is the rubric, text en question,
02:41
and here you may see James Abram Garfield. He was a president of the United States of America and he had found a new proof of Pythagoras theorem. So here the question was about this proof
03:01
and the readers had to find what Garfield and John really, well the poor guy was shot one month after he became president, so I hope it is not because of this proof.
03:20
This is the forum where we put some news with somebody easy to recognize. And this was for the 20th birthday of the second birth of the Poincare Institute.
03:40
Well, I hope I'm not going to be fired on the conference after this slide. Why only paper print? Because we think that many people prefer to ever, really paper and hands, and then to look at the web.
04:00
And there is an American study about books, which is very recent and says that college students like print books in libraries more than e-books. And the other reason is that paper communication allows to go further and deeper in the equation
04:23
than mathematical stuff. Well, our journal is published in French, so it can be an advantage, and at the same time a disadvantage, while the French-speaking zone is rather big,
04:41
but of course not so big as the English-speaking zone. But recently things seem to change a little because we received papers in English from very noticed and these papers are retained, they will be of course translated in French
05:02
because we want to stay a French review. Referencement, well, that's important. Well, it's quite impossible even for paper to ignore the web because readers like
05:24
to know what is published, they may want to consult our databases, and the authors have to download templates to write according to the standards of quadrature. So this can be done on a website,
05:42
which is also a sales site, and we also run a blog, quadrature review blog spot. While it is very interesting to run a blog at the same time because with the quarterly it's quite impossible to fit the actuality in mathematics,
06:03
and also it is a way to test topics. For instance, you can look how the visitors react to a certain topic, to a certain post, and if there's a lot of reactions, you may think that it's possible to develop this in your paper issue.
06:23
And also we have a partnership with the CTE Image et Mathematic of the CNRS, and sometimes we publish at the same times a paper on the web and in our paper issue,
06:41
but the articles are not exactly the same. It is possible in the journal to go further in the equations, and here on the website, they will emphasize the pictures and the values.
07:02
Well, this is a screenshot of our blog, and I don't know if you recognize this guy. It is a writer, a romantic writer, Francois-René Chateaubriand, and we made a series of posts about Chateaubriand
07:20
because before he became a politician and a romantic writer, he wanted to be an officer in the Royal Navy, I mean, the French Royal Navy, of course and at this time, to enter the Navy, you had to pass an exam with a lot of maths,
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and there was a terrible examiner who was Etienne Bezou. I don't know if you know this mathematician. He's known for a result about co-prime, non-bros, polynomials, and ideals. Well, so Chateaubriand had to work in Bezou's books,
08:03
and they wrote this souvenir in memories, in memoirs de tretemps. That's why the post is memoir de tretemps, and it may seem strange, but in fact, this series is the close of the first peak here,
08:23
and it was much more appreciated. Another interesting thing for us, for the bloke, is that it is seen in all those countries and not only in the French-speaking zone, and there is a recent evolution.
08:41
This is for May of this year. You see many peoples came from Germany, many from Ukraine, and only after from France, Russia, and the United States. Well, we try to find new readers. It's always important,
09:02
and so we have some times to change our topics, because we have ancient readers who are always interested in very classical math papers with title, abstract, section, theorem, proof, and things like this, mainly about theory of numbers, Euclidean geometry,
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but we try to find a new public with new topics, closer to apply math, for instance, and this is not very far from imaginary,
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because on this cover, you recognize a glacier, and of course, it was an issue made with Guillaume Jouvet, who also worked with imaginary. That there is a big difference, is that the glacier is a French one.
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Well, it was a joke, sorry. Well, this one was made with Oliver Labs, and it is a surface, and you can find this picture on the gallery of imaginary, too. Well, another example, with Inria,
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you may look at the hair of this character, this character, this woman, in fact, and the subject was how to approach the structure of the hair with circular helix.
10:41
So, it is a paper wrote with Florence Bertel de Coubes, and she works in a research team about computer graphics, and she developed a new algorithm, and they join pieces of circular helix
11:05
to make the hair follow the movement when the girl is dancing. You can find a little movie on the web about this. So, it is an example of an article where classical geometry joins a very modern subject,
11:25
which is computer graphics. Of course, if you change the topics, you also have to change the shape of the article, and you must use modern theories of science journalism,
11:43
mainly hyperstructures. It is to replace the classical math article by, let's say, a big file with many entries, and if you want to know more about this, I can recommend you this paper, but it is in French.
12:04
It says, le hyperstructure en mode privilege de présentation des évenements scientifiques, and it means that hyperstructure is the best way to present scientific events in the press. It's very interesting. For instance, something very simple.
12:22
I think this is a paper of Guillaume Jouvet. If you see various rational principle, and the reader may be not interested in the space, where the functions live, but if you want to know more, just have to read here the insert about Sobolev spaces,
12:44
which he's not obliged to, and he may also choose his entry in the article. For instance, probably here, the reader won't enter by the abstract, but he will enter by this picture, and look at the giraffe and the elephant,
13:03
and this paper was made with Damir Homer, who is also in Inria, and it is about stokes' theorem, in fact. Well, I can do some bodybuilding, you will be impressed,
13:20
but here, there is a bulge, yes, and here it's thinner, but you may see that the volume of my arm stay constant. So it is possible to do some movie of moving hands or moving animals, and to be realistic,
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you can maintain the volume of, let's say, a leg of the arm constant, and for this, you use stokes' theorem. It gives you an integral, which has to stay constant while the computer makes the calculation,
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and of course, it's in discrete space. A very important thing for us is young people, young readers, and young writers, too. We have developed a collaboration with the Institute of Mathematics, the Toulouse, with the Fermat Junior Prize,
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which is the junior version of the Fermat Prize, of course, and we do some advertising from the prize, we participate to the jury, that can be a big job, and the winners are published in our quarterly,
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and for most of his young authors, it's their first mat paper, and we also publish young authors from other countries, for instance, in Switzerland, they have examined maturity in the French-speaking area of Switzerland, and some projects are very interesting.
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We also have a collaboration with Matin-Jean in France, and Matlan, Matlan is an European project linked with Aerosmith, it means learning maths and languages at the same time.
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Of course, we also publish best projects, and the young people are most often very happy to be published, to see that people are interested in their work to such an extent. And for example, this is the shape of an article about inflated sets, it's geometry,
15:41
and you may see here the group, a group of students who wrote the paper with their researcher and their teacher. Well, I was most finished, this is the conclusion, but for the conclusion, I think you have recognized
16:03
this curve, it is the curve from Francois Apery, it is the anaglyph of Venus, and maybe it's better here. Well, this curve was treated to retain the attention of readers.
16:20
This work was made by Joe Slace, I think you know him because he has worked with ATNGs for the film Dimension, and this is also on the website of imaginary, you can download the film there. And you know, he take the curve of Francois Apery,
16:42
and he put it in a spatial environment, and this was for cover. For the conclusion, I would say that this was on number 100, and of course I hope it will continue,
17:01
and if anybody here has some proposition for collaboration, I would be very grateful, and thank you. Any questions for the speaker?
17:22
I had some questions about the, sort of your economic model, and, not working, I had some questions about the economic model for this journal, and how you handle editing, acquisition,
17:41
and reviewing of papers. Yes, this journal, I told you it was created in 1989, and it went through some crisis, because at a certain moment it was a property of a press group, which is ADP Sciences, and they thought that it was not very interesting for them
18:07
it was a lot of problems for a few money, so they sell the journal to another independent group, and they only kept their medical journals.
18:21
But now there is a little structure, which is, whose name is Sedim, ruled by an ancient teacher, who is very passionate about press. This man, for instance, he liked rocks, I don't know the English word for geology.
18:41
Geology, geology. And he is also in the same group than Quadrature, a little magazine about this, and we worked together, it's a very, very small structure. And the journal is made in Morocco, by e-press,
19:01
and it is printed in France, in Nancy, and then distributed. And is it self-sustaining? Yes, it's self-sustaining, but not enough, for example, to pay myself. I work as a teacher during the day, and during the night, I do.
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And maybe I missed it at the beginning, how many subscribers do you have? We are running about 1,200 subscribers, but there is institutional subscribers, because you can find in France Quadrature, in almost all libraries, all universities, in fact,
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so it is difficult to precisely evaluate a number of readers. Other questions? If there's no further questions, let's thank Jean-Paul again.
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