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Of the European Mathematical Society NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Feature S E European Friable Integers M M Mathematical Interactions of Probability E S Society and Number Theory Interviews Sir Michael Atiyah March 2019 Michel Waldschmidt Issue 111 Bernadette Faye ISSN 1027-488X Societies The Spanish Society for Applied Mathematics Sir Michael Atiyah Monograph Award Call for Submissions O G R The EMS Monograph Award is assigned every year to N A the author(s) of a monograph, in any area of mathe- P O matics, that is judged by the selection committee to H M be an outstanding contribution to its field. The prize A is endowed with 10,000 Euro and the winning mono- D W A R graph will be published by the EMS Publishing House in the series “EMS Tracts in Mathematics”. Previous prize winners were: Patrick Dehornoy et al., Foundations of Garside Theory Augusto C. Ponce, Elliptic PDEs, Measures and Capacities. From the Poisson Equation to Nonlinear Thomas–Fermi Problems Vincent Guedj and Ahmed Zeriahi, Degenerate Complex Monge–Ampère Equations Yves de Cornulier and Pierre de la Harpe, Metric Geometry of Locally Compact Groups The deadline for the next award, to be announced in 2020, is 30 June 2019. Submission of manuscripts The monograph must be original and unpublished, written in English and should not be submitted elsewhere until an editorial decision is rendered on the submission. Monographs should preferably be typeset in TeX. Authors should send a pdf file of the manuscript to: [email protected] Scientific Committee John Coates (University of Cambridge, UK) Pierre Degond (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) Carlos Kenig (University of Chicago, USA) Jaroslav Nesˇetrˇil (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Michael Röckner (Universität Bielefeld, Germany, and Purdue University, USA) Vladimir Turaev (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) www.ems-ph.org Contents Editorial Team Editor-in-Chief Gemma Huguet European (Research Centres) Valentin Zagrebnov Departament de Matemàtiques Institut de Mathématiques de ETSEIB-UPC Marseille (UMR 7373) – CMI Avda. Diagonal 647 Mathematical Technopôle Château-Gombert 08028 Barcelona, Spain 39, rue F. Joliot Curie e-mail: [email protected] 13453 Marseille Cedex 13, France Octavio Paniagua Taboada Society e-mail: [email protected] (zbMATH Column) FIZ Karlsruhe, Franklinstr. 11 10587 Berlin, Germany Editors e-mail: [email protected] Newsletter No. 111, March 2019 Jean-Paul Allouche Ulf Persson (Book Reviews) (Social Media) EMS Agenda / EMS Scientific Events .......................................... 2 IMJ-PRG, UPMC Matematiska Vetenskaper 4, Place Jussieu, Case 247 Chalmers tekniska högskola Editorial – From the New President - V. Mehrmann ..................... 3 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Sir Vaughan F. R. Jones to Deliver a Public Lecture at 8ECM - e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] T. Pisanski ............................................................................. 5 Jean-Bernard Bru Vladimir L. Popov (Contacts with SMF) (Features and Discussions) Friable Integers: An Overview - C. Dartyge .................................. 6 Departamento de Matemáticas Steklov Mathematical Institute Some Recent Interactions of Probability and Number Theory - Universidad del País Vasco Russian Academy of Sciences Apartado 644 Gubkina 8 C. Perret-Gentil ...................................................................... 13 48080 Bilbao, Spain 119991 Moscow, Russia Last Interview with Sir Michael Atiyah - J. A. Cruz Morales ........... 21 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Interview with Michel Waldschmidt - U. Persson ......................... 23 Fernando Pestana da Costa Michael Th. Rassias (Societies) (Problem Corner) Interview with Bernadette Faye - U. Persson ............................... 27 Depto de Ciências e Tecnolo- Institute of Mathematics ICM 2018 in Rio – A Personal Account - U. Persson .................... 28 gia, Secção de Matemática, University of Zurich Universidade Aberta Winterthurerstrasse 190 The 100th Jubilee of Riesz Theory - A. Pietsch ........................... 31 Rua da Escola Politécnica, nº 8057 Zürich Mathematics in the Historical Collections of École Polytechnique 141–147 e-mail: [email protected] 1269-001 Lisboa, Portugal (Part II) - F. Brechenmacher .................................................... 34 e-mail: [email protected] Volker R. Remmert (History of Mathematics) Michel Mendès France, 1936–2018 - J.-P. Allouche & Jean-Luc Dorier IZWT, Wuppertal University J. Shallit ................................................................................ 43 (Math. Education) D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany FPSE – Université de Genève e-mail: [email protected] The Spanish Society for Applied Mathematics and ICIAM 2019 - Bd du pont d’Arve, 40 R. Donat ............................................................................... 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland Vladimir Salnikov 45 e-mail: [email protected] (Young Mathematicians’ Column) ERME Column - S. Carreira et al. ............................................... 48 La Rochelle University Javier Fresán LaSIE, Avenue Michel Crépeau Current Developments on the zbMATH Interface - (Young Mathematicians’ Column) 17042 La Rochelle Cedex 1, O. Paniagua Taboada ............................................................. 50 Centre de Mathématiques France Laurent Schwartz e-mail: [email protected] Book Reviews ........................................................................... 52 École Polytechnique 91128 Palaiseau, France Dierk Schleicher Solved and Unsolved Problems - M. Th. Rassias ......................... 55 e-mail: [email protected] (Features and Discussions) Research I Jacobs University Bremen The views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the Postfach 750 561 authors and do not necessarily represent those of the 28725 Bremen, Germany EMS or the Editorial Team. e-mail: [email protected] ISSN 1027-488X © 2019 European Mathematical Society Published by the EMS Publishing House ETH-Zentrum SEW A21 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland homepage: www.ems-ph.org Scan the QR code to go to the Newsletter web page: For advertisements and reprint permission requests http://euro-math-soc.eu/newsletter contact: [email protected] EMS Newsletter March 2019 1 EMS Agenda EMS Executive Committee EMS Agenda President Prof. Nicola Fusco 2019 (2017–2020) Prof. Volker Mehrmann Dip. di Matematica e Applicazioni 22 – 23 March (2019–2022) Complesso Universitario di EMS Executive Committee Meeting, Berlin, Germany Technische Universität Berlin Monte Sant’ Angelo Sekretariat MA 4-5 Via Cintia 23 – 24 March Straße des 17. 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