J for Jordan
Résumé
A case study on the early publications of Jordan in the 1860s sheds a new light on an important form of circulation of mathematics between France and Italy through a specific connection between newly founded specialized mathematical journals, such as the Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, and much older organisations of mathematics, such as the Académie des sciences de Paris. Academic prizes especially provided a way to plan mathematical research, and therefore its circulation through future publications. This circulation involved subtle national issues between French and foreign mathematical journals.