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Discover the second 2015-2016 conference given as part of the Multidisciplinary Cycle of Higher Education (CPES) of PSL on November 12, 2015 by Alain Connes, Professor at the Collège de France (member institution of PSL), holder of the chair of Analysis and Geometry. Alain Connes presents "Mathematics and thought in motion": it is through a gallery of portraits of great mathematicians including that of Evariste Galois, a young genius of the 19th century who died prematurely, that he aims to give Mathematics a "human" face. Through their interactions with everything in life, mathematics "are a factory of absolutely fundamental concepts and concepts that relate to life, which are not confined to calculations with numbers...". These ideas, as important in the human sciences as in the hard sciences, can be explained simply, according to Alain Connes.