Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris

The Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris (FSMP) is a network of excellence that federates the main laboratories of mathematics and fundamental computer science in central and northern Paris.

It is the largest concentration of mathematicians in the world. Its scientific spectrum encompasses all mathematics, from pure mathematics to the most applied, including fundamental computer science.

The FSMP

  • Proposes and funds programs for research and training in mathematics and fundamental computer science
  • Organizes scientific events
  • Works to disseminate mathematics to the media, the general public, the economic and industrial world.
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Resources for the general public

Find on this page our selection of contents intended for a large audience.

 : The Millennium Equation

In The Millennium Equation, comic designed by the FSMP with the help of the mathematician Nicolas Rougerie, Ingrid and Gaspard retrace the history of the Navier-Stokes equation and try to understand its meaning...

L'Équation du millénaire | CNRS Physique

Click here to access the comic.

Library  

Popular works, novels... FSMP scientists, members of our laboratories or winners of our programs, also write books for the general public! Available in bookshops...

Most of these books are available only in French.

   Love and math - 1

Love and Math by Edward Frenkel (Lauréat de la Chaire d'Excellence FSMP en 2010)

 

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L'aventure des nombres by Gilles Godefroy (CNRS, IMJ-PRG)

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101 quizz qui banquent: Mathématiques et finance sont-elles indépendantes ? by Gilles Pagès (LPSM, SU) 

                      

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Les Maths au tribunal: Quand les erreurs de calcul font les erreurs judiciaires by Coralie Colmez and Leila Schneps (CNRS, IMJ-PRG)

 

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Éducation tropicale by Thibault Lefeuvre (CNRS, IMJ-PRG)

 

 

                

Au nom de l'infini by Jean-Michel Kantor (IMJ-PRG, UPC) et Loren Graham

 

 

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Call for applications and fundings

02 October 2025
Call for applications Postdocs
Calls for tenders and financing

The call for applications to FSMP post-doctoral program is open from Thursday October 2th to Monday December 1st.

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02 October 2025
Call for applications Research Chair of Excellence
Calls for tenders and financing

The call for applications to FSMP research chairs of excellence is open rom Thursday October 2th to Monday December 1st.

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23 September 2023
Invitations and stays
Actualités
Calls for tenders and financing

The Researchers Invitations program and the Stays for PhD students receive applications receive applications throughout the year.

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News

19 March 2026
Einstein Metrics, Four-Manifolds, and Differential Topology (Claude LeBrun)
Actualités
News
Cours FSMP
Claude R. LeBrun, professor at Stony Brook, specialist in Riemannian Geometry and laureate of the FSMP Chair of Excellence in 2025, is giving, in the frame of his chair, a 15-hour course on the topic Einstein Metrics, Four-Manifolds, and Differential...
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15 January 2026
The Aztec Diamond: an analytic journey through random tilings (Maurice Duits)
Actualités
Cours FSMP
Maurice Duits, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and lauerate of the FSMP Chair of Excellence in 2025, is giving, in the frame of his chair, a 20-hour course on the topic of The Aztec Diamond: an analytic journey through random ...
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19 September 2025
Stéphane Mallat, gold medal of the CNRS
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News
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The CNRS has just awarded its gold medal, France's most prestigious scientific distinction, to mathematician Stéphane Mallat, holder of the Chair of Data Science at the Collège de France, formerly a professor at the ENS and member of the DI ENS. He i...
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