Speaker
Athanase Papadopoulos
(Université de Strasbourg)
Description
It is usual to oppose the mathematical school founded in Saint Petersburg by Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev and that of Leonhard Euler. In this talk, I will on the contrary stress on the similarities between the works of the two mathematicians. At the same time, this will give us the occasion to review some of the major achievements of both men and to establish links between their works.
