Abstract

In the issue dated 21 September 1972 of the newspaper Le Dauphine, which circulates in Grenoble and the neighbouring districts of France, Professor Louis Neel, one of the most distinguished physicists of our day and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his work in magnetism, gave an interview regarding the teaching of 'modern' mathematics in France. To put it mildly, he is against the large scale introduction of such methods in French schools, although he feels that a small proportion of children may benefit from abstract mathematics courses.

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