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- Qa faut avouer, dit Trouscaillon qui, dans cette simple ellipse,
utilisait hyperboliquement Ie cercle vicieux de la parabole. - Bun,
dit Ie Sanctimontronais, j'y vais. (R. Queneau, Zazie dans Ie
metru, Chapitre X.) L'etude des groupes infinis a toujours ete en
relation etroite avec des considerations geometriques: etude des
deplacements de l'espace euclidien R3 (Jordan, 1868), programme
d'Erlangen (Klein, 1872), travaux de Lie et Poincare. L'approche
combinatoire des groupes, fondee sur la notion de presentation,
remonte a Dyck (1882) mais doit son developpement en premier lieu a
Dehn (des 1910) (voir ChM]). Les resultats decisifs de Dehn sur les
groupes fondamentaux des sur faces sont marques par un ingredient
geometrique crucial qui est la couTbuTe negati.ve. C'est ce me-me
ingredient qui est ala base du tra vail fondamental de Gromov sur
les groupes hyperboliques, conune on Ie voit esquisse dans Gr2,
Gr4] et repris dans Gr5]. Nous sonuues cOllvaincus que l'importance
de ce travail dans Ie developpement. de la theorie des groupes est
comparable it ceux deja cites de Klein et Dehll."
The only complete extant version of the life of Saint Alexius by
the Milanese author Bonvesin da la Riva is to be found in
Manuscript 93 of the Biblioteca Trivulziana from the late 14th
century. Whereas earlier editors (Contini and GAkAen) were
concerned to reconstruct the 13th century original, the present
volume provides the first interpretive edition of this important
Old Lombardic text. The historical linguistic aspect of the text is
covered in the introduction, the notes, and a complete index of
words and word forms. In terms of literary history, the volume also
provides the foundations for an appreciation of Bonvesin as one of
the first great Italian narrative artists.
Writing has been invented four times in human history, by the
Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Mayans. Each of
these peoples developed a restricted set of symbols capable of
recording any possible discourse in their spoken language. Much
later, between 1700 and 1900, prophets and shamans of the Native
American tribes developed “bounded†writing methods, designed
to ensure the transmission of ceremonial rituals whose notational
principles differed profoundly from more familiar forms of writing.
Pierre Déléage draws on a deep and comparative study of
historical and ethnographic evidence to propose the groundbreaking
thesis that all writing systems were initially bounded methods,
reversing the accepted historical perspective and making it
possible to revise our conception of the origin of the other great
writing systems. The Invention of Writing offers new conceptual
tools for answering a simple question: Why have humans repeatedly
expended the immense intellectual effort required to invent
writing?
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