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

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...

, Paris, France) and affiliated to INED (Institut national d'études démographiques

Institut national d'études démographiques

The Institut national d'études démographiques is a French research institute specialized in demography and population studies in general.-A research institute founded in 1945:...

, Paris, France). Since 1995, he is the editor of the Revue de synthèse

Revue de synthèse

The journal Revue de synthèse was created by Henri Berr in 1900 under the title Revue de synthèse historique. It has had a variety of editorial partners since its creation...

today published at Springer Verlag (Paris). Since 1997, he teaches too at the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

 (Austria). Between September 2008 and January 2010, he was deputy director of the CNRS' institute devoted to Human and Social Sciences.

External links

• Éric Brian's scientific information blog.
• Website of the Revue de synthèse.

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
  Marie Jaisson
  Marie Jaisson is a sociologist. She is studying sociology of medical practices and of biological phenomena. She is currently professor at the University of Tours and affiliated to the Centre Maurice-Halbwachs ....
  
  . Paris, Raisons d'agir, 2007.
• The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth. A Dialogue between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology, with Marie Jaisson
  Marie Jaisson
  Marie Jaisson is a sociologist. She is studying sociology of medical practices and of biological phenomena. She is currently professor at the University of Tours and affiliated to the Centre Maurice-Halbwachs ....
  
  . Dordrecht, Springer Verlag, 2007.

• Maurice Halbwachs
  Maurice Halbwachs
  Maurice Halbwachs was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory.Born in Reims, Halbwachs attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. There he studied philosophy with Henri Bergson, who influenced him greatly. He aggregated in Philosophy in 1901...
  
   et coll., Le Point de vue du nombre (1936), ed. with Marie Jaisson
  Marie Jaisson
  Marie Jaisson is a sociologist. She is studying sociology of medical practices and of biological phenomena. She is currently professor at the University of Tours and affiliated to the Centre Maurice-Halbwachs ....
  
  . 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.