Series I
Formal sciences
Mathematics
Éditions Clementinium
Understanding science, one idea at a time.
Clementinium is a publishing house devoted to mathematics and science. Its encyclopaedia connects knowledge through the development of ideas: the problems that give rise to them, the reasoning that clarifies them, and the questions they open up.
The first journey
Five volumes of mathematics.
William de France’s Articulated Course in Mathematics is the encyclopaedia’s first collection. From numbers to the frontiers of research, its five volumes form a continuous journey in French and English.
Explore the five volumes →The method
One idea, one article.
Each short article develops one central idea. Articles connect across chapters, volumes, and series: a definition prepares the way for a result, an experiment forces a model to change, a question crosses disciplinary boundaries.
Rigour also means showing where established knowledge ends. Proofs, observations, models, and conjectures have distinct roles; explaining their conditions and limits is part of explaining the science.
The publishing programme
The history of ideas. Then further sciences.
The history of mathematics and the first publications in Series II — Physics and III — Matter are planned to follow the course.
The history of mathematics belongs within the mathematics series: it tells how the ideas developed that the course sets out. The new series will follow the same connected approach, adapted to their subject matter and ways of establishing knowledge.
Provisional programme. Titles and excerpts will be presented as the editions become ready.
The encyclopaedia’s scope
Seven series, connections to build.
This map sets out the direction of the project. The series beyond mathematics are in preparation; this is not a catalogue of published books.
Series II
Physics
Motion, fields, matter, and the universe
Series III
Matter
Chemistry: substances, structures, and transformations
Series IV
Earth and Space
Geosciences and astronomy
Series V
Life
Biology, evolution, and ecology
Series VI
Mind and Society
Humanities and social sciences
Series VII
Connections
Links between disciplines, history and philosophy of science