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How Does Mathematics Last? Heritage and Heritage-Making in Mathematics
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- 1 00:00 // Welcome & talk overview
- 2 00:06 // Speaker intro: Caroline Ehrhardt & project “PATRIMATH”—patrimony of mathematics
- 3 00:53 // What does it mean for mathematics to “last”? Heritage, memory & forgetting
- 4 02:25 // Why focus on libraries? Preservation, transmission, and creating new math
- 5 03:32 // “The mathematician’s laboratory”: books, journals & Fermat’s margin note
- 6 05:23 // Case study set-up: 19th-century French mathematicians’ private libraries
- 7 06:16 // Arbogast’s famed collection & what such catalogs can and can’t tell us
- 8 08:35 // How scholars used their books: annotations, compilations, and working tables
- 9 16:01 // When books weren’t read: gifts, unopened volumes & bibliophile value
- 10 19:41 // Symbolic “canon” on the shelf: Euclid, Galileo, Ptolemy & multiple editions
- 11 23:15 // Library temporality: ancient authors via modern editions & translations
- 12 25:00 // Why antiquity persists: editorial cycles, canons, and who gets forgotten
- 13 27:02 // Shift to schools: revolutionary reforms & the rise of secondary-school libraries
- 14 28:47 // 1795–1802 Écoles centrales: official recommended math book lists
- 15 30:44 // Building a forward-looking canon: analytic approach, clarity & availability
- 16 33:27 // On-the-ground reality: scarce budgets, book redistribution & patchy holdings
- 17 35:35 // Replacing Écoles centrales: lycées start mostly from scratch
- 18 37:45 // What the lycées owned: old standbys, new textbooks & advanced treatises
- 19 40:37 // Why Laplace & Lagrange show up: prizes, prestige & symbolic legacy
- 20 42:14 // Libraries as tools and heritage builders: linking past, present, future
- 21 43:07 // Emerging cases: Oflag 78 POW library & Turin’s number theory ecosystem
- 22 44:23 // Fragile heritage: Bureau des Longitudes & the Institut Poincaré library
- 23 45:57 // Takeaways & thanks
