{"id":620,"date":"2018-09-12T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=620"},"modified":"2018-09-13T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T10:25:01","slug":"quotation-of-paul-painleve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Quotation of Paul Painlev\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For production of an Open University text, I have spent a long time researching the origin of a quotation of Paul\u00a0Painlev\u00e9. I include the details here in case they are of use to others. Some of the information about the quotation that I can find elsewhere on-line is incomplete or incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>The quotation is<\/p>\n<p><em>entre deux v\u00e9rit\u00e9s du domaine r\u00e9el, le chemin le plus facile et le plus court passe bien souvent par le domaine complexe<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p>which translates as<\/p>\n<p><em>between two truths of the real domain, the easiest and shortest path quite often passes through the complex domain<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This quotation is taken from a document written by Painlev\u00e9 around 1900 that was distributed to various scientists to determine whether Painlev\u00e9 should be admitted to l&#8217;Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences, Paris. Much later, after Painlev\u00e9&#8217;s death, it was discovered by his son, and then republished as the following book.<\/p>\n<p><em>Title<\/em>: Analyse des travaux scientifiques jusqu&#8217;en 1900<\/p>\n<p><em>Publisher<\/em>: Librairie Scientifique et Technique Albert Blanchard<\/p>\n<p><em>Publication year<\/em>: 1967<\/p>\n<p><em>Publication location<\/em>: Paris<\/p>\n<p><em>Page number of quotation<\/em>: 2<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a\u00a0snip of the front of the text.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-title.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-title-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-title-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-title.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snip of the quote itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-quote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-quote-300x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-quote-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-quote.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some words about the origin of the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-details.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-details-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-details-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/painleve-details.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For production of an Open University text, I have spent a long time researching the origin of a quotation of Paul\u00a0Painlev\u00e9. I include the details here in case they are of use to others. Some of the information about the quotation that I can find elsewhere on-line is incomplete or incorrect. The quotation is entre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}