Éric Brian
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Éric Brian (23 June 1958 – 13 August 2025) was a French historian of science and a sociologist. He studied the uncertainty and regularity of social phenomena, and in particular, how scientists have caught and conceived them as objects of mathematics or social and economic sciences.
He was senior professor at EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France). Since 1995, he was the editor of the Revue de synthèse today published at Brill Publishers (Paris). In the Fall of 1994, Brian was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.[1] Between 1997 and 2018, he taught at the University of Vienna (Austria).
He died on 13 August 2025.[2]
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Former Fellows SCAS".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hommage à Éric Brian et Éric Denis" [Tribute to Éric Brian and Éric Denis]. Campus Condorcet (in French). 1 September 2026. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
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Selected publications
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric (2024). Are Statistics Only Made of Data?: Know-How and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries. Methodos Series. Vol. 20. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-51254-4. ISBN 978-3-031-51253-7.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fréchet, Maurice; Halbwachs, Maurice (2019). Le Calcul des probabilités à la portée de tous (in français). Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg. ISBN 9791034400096.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Durkheim, Émile; Mauss, Marcel (2017) [1903]. De quelques formes primitives de classification (in français). Paris: Presses universitaires de France.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric, ed. (2012). "Sociologie générale, éléments nouveaux". Revue de synthèse (in français). 133 (1).
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric; Boudia, Soraya, eds. (2011). "Social Memory and Hyper Modernity". International Social Science Journal. 62 (203–204). Unesco.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric (2009). Comment tremble la main invisible. Incertitude et marchés (in français). Paris: Springer Verlag.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric; Walter, Christian, eds. (2007). Critique de la valeur fondamentale (in français). Paris: Springer Verlag.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric; Jaisson, Marie (2007). Le Sexisme de la première heure. Hasard et sociologie (in français). Paris: Raisons d'agir.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric; Jaisson, Marie (2007). The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth. A Dialogue between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Halbwachs, Maurice (2005). Brian, Éric; Jaisson, Marie (eds.). Le Point de vue du nombre (1936) (in français). Paris: éditions de l'Ined.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Condorcet (2004). Schandeler, Jean-Pierre; Crépel, Pierre (eds.). Tableau historique de l'esprit humain. Projets, Esquisse, Fragments et Notes (1772-1794) (in français). Paris: éditions de l'Ined.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric; Demeulenaere-Douyère, Christiane, eds. (2002). Règlement, usages et science dans la France de l'Absolutisme (in français). Paris: éditions Technique & Documentation.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric (2001). Staatsvermessungen. Condorcet, Laplace, Turgot und das Denken der Verwaltung (in Deutsch). Wien: Springer Verlag.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric; Demeulenaere-Douyère, Christiane, eds. (1996). Histoire et mémoire de l'Académie des sciences. Guide de recherches (in français). Paris: éditions Technique & Documentation.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric, ed. (1996). "Henri Berr et la culture du XXe s. Histoire, science et philosophie". Revue de synthèse (in français). 117 (1–2).
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian, Éric (1994). La Mesure de l'État. Administrateurs et géomètres au XVIIIe siècle (in français). Paris: Albin Michel.