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A course Literature and mathematics

Spangle Durac·Claude Merker·Stefan Neuwirth
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This article gives an account of a teaching experience carried out from 2008 to 2021 at the university of Franche-Comt{\'e} as an answer to the ministerial command of proposing cross-disciplinary courses in the curricula. The goal of the experience was to develop simultaneously a discourse on mathematics and a discourse on literature, two independent discourses, but each filled with the gap between one domain and the other and mindful of the flashes of thought that are lightening from one to the other, witnesses of unity in their reasoning. -- Cet article rend compte d'une exp{\'e}rience d'enseignement men{\'e}e de 2008 {\`a} 2012 {\`a} l'universit{\'e} de Franche-Comt{\'e} en r{\'e}ponse {\`a} l'injonction minist{\'e}rielle de proposer des unit{\'e}s transversales dans les maquettes de dipl{\^o}me. Le but de cette exp{\'e}rience a {\'e}t{\'e} de d{\'e}velopper {\`a} la fois un discours sur les math{\'e}matiques et un discours sur la litt{\'e}rature, deux discours ind{\'e}pendants, mais chacun rempli de l'{\'e}cart entre l'un des domaines et l'autre, et attentif aux {\'e}clairs de la pens{\'e}e qui jaillissent de l'un vers l'autre, t{\'e}moignages d'unit{\'e} dans la d{\'e}marche intellectuelle.

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Spangle Durac, Claude Merker, Stefan Neuwirth. 2022-01-12. A course Literature and mathematics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04375

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