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Name
Eric Brian
Fields
sociology of science, Sociology of knowledge
Institutions
Centre Maurice Halbwachs, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Institut national d\'etudes demographiques
Alma mater
Ecole Polytechnique, University of Paris-Sud, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Éric Brian is an historian of science and a sociologist. He is studying uncertainty and regularity of social phenomena, and in particular how scientists have caught and conceived them as objects of mathematics or social and economical sciences.
He is currently senior professor at EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France) and affiliated to INED (Institut national d'études démographiques, Paris, France). Since 1995, he is the editor of the Revue de synthèse today published at Springer Verlag (Paris). Since 1997, he teaches too at the University of Vienna (Austria).
Some publications
Comment tremble la main invisible. Incertitude et marchés. Paris, Springer Verlag, 2009.
Critique de la valeur fondamentale, ed. with Christian Walter. Paris, Springer Verlag, 2007.
Le Sexisme de la première heure. Hasard et sociologie, with Marie Jaisson. Paris, Raisons d'agir, 2007.
The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth. A Dialogue between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology, with Marie Jaisson. Dordrecht, Springer Verlag, 2007.
Maurice Halbwachs et coll., Le Point de vue du nombre (1936), ed. with Marie Jaisson. Paris, Ined, 2005.
Condorcet, Tableau historique de l'esprit humain. Projets, Esquisse, Fragments et Notes (1772-1794), ed. with the Groupe Condorcet. Paris, Ined, 2004.
Règlement, usages et science dans la France de l'Absolutisme, ed. with Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère. Paris, Technique & Documentation, 2002.
Staatsvermessungen. Condorcet, Laplace, Turgot und das Denken der Verwaltung. Wien, Springer Verlag, 2001.
Histoire et mémoire de l'Académie des sciences. Guide de recherches, ed. with Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère. Paris, Technique & Documentation, 1996.
La Mesure de l'État. Administrateurs et géomètres au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, Albin Michel, 1994.