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NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Obituary Feature History Interview K. Itô Confessions Berlin in the 19th century Jacques Dixmier p. 11 p. 17 p. 26 p. 34 June 2009 Issue 72 ISSN 1027-488X S E European M M Mathematical E S Society Don’t forget that all EMS members receive a 20% Geometric Mechanics and Symmetry discount on a large range of Mathematics books From Finite to Infinite Dimensions from Oxford University Press. For more information please visit: Darryl D. Holm, Tanya Schmah, and Cristina Stoica www.oup.com/uk/sale/science/ems A graduate level text based partly on lectures in geometry, mechanics, and symmetry given at Imperial College London, this book links traditional classical Multiscale Methods mechanics texts and advanced modern mathematical Bridging the Scales in Science and treatments of the subject. 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Hardback |978-0-19-923076-1 |£55.00 December 2008 | 928 pp Hardback | 978-0-19-921312-2 |£85.00 discover new books by email! Subscribe to Oxford e.news and receive a monthly order direct from oup bulletin from OUP with information on new books in Tel: +44 (0)1536 741727 mathematics. Just visit: 1 email: [email protected] www.oup.com/uk/emailnews online: www.oup.com/uk/sale/science/ems www.oup.com Contents Editorial Team Editor-in-Chief Mariolina Bartolini Bussi European (Math. Education) Vicente Muñoz Dip. Matematica – Universitá ICMAT – CSIC Via G. Campi 213/b C/Serrano, 113bis I-41100 Modena, Italy Mathematical E-28006, Madrid, Spain e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov FB3 Mathematik Society Associate Editors University of Bremen Postfach 330440 Vasile Berinde D-28334 Bremen, Germany Department of Mathematics e-mail: [email protected] Newsletter No. 72, June 2009 and Computer Science Ivan Netuka Universitatea de Nord (Recent Books) Baia Mare Mathematical Institute EMS Agenda ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 Facultatea de Stiinte Charles University Str. Victoriei, nr. 76 Sokolovská 83 Editorial – L. Lovász ................................................................................................................................ 3 430072, Baia Mare, Romania 186 75 Praha 8 Letters to the Editor .................................................................................................................................. 4 e-mail: [email protected] Czech Republic e-mail: [email protected] Krzysztof Ciesielski EMS Executive Committee meeting report – V. Berinde ........................... 7 (Societies) Mădălina Păcurar Mathematics Institute EUROMATH-2009 – V. Berinde ............................................................................................... 9 (Conferences) Jagellonian University Department of Statistics, Reymonta 4 Some aspects of K. Itô’s works – M. Yor .................................................................... 11 Forecast and Mathematics PL-30-059, Kraków, Poland Babes -Bolyai University Twenty-five years of CRM – C. Casacuberta .......................................................... 12 e-mail: [email protected] , T. Mihaili St. 58–60 Martin Raussen 400591 Cluj-Napoca, Romania Mathematics for the people – J. Buescu ..................................................................... 14 Department of Mathematical e-mail: [email protected]; Sciences e-mail: [email protected] Laying foundations – S. Janeczko ......................................................................................... 16 Aalborg University Confessions of an industrial mathematician – C. Budd ............................ Fredrik Bajers Vej 7G Frédéric Paugam 17 DK-9220 Aalborg Øst, Institut de Mathématiques On Platonism – M. Gardner & E. Davies ...................................................................... 23 Denmark de Jussieu 175, rue de Chevaleret th e-mail: [email protected] Berlin in the 19 century – J. Gray ..................................................................................... 29 F-75013 Paris, France Robin Wilson e-mail: [email protected] Interview with J. Dixmier – M. Raussen ........................................................................ 34 Department of Mathematical Sciences Ulf Persson ICMI News – M. Bartolini ................................................................................................................. 41 The Open University Matematiska Vetenskaper Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK Chalmers tekniska högskola ERME Column – F. Arzarello ........................................................................................................ 43 e-mail: [email protected] S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden e-mail: [email protected] Book Review: Invitation to Topological Robotics – M. Raussen ...... 46 Copy Editor Themistocles M. Rassias Personal Column – D. Feitchner-Kozlov ............................................................. 48 (Problem Corner) Chris Nunn Department of Mathematics Forthcoming Conferences – M. P˘acurar ............................................................. 49 4 Rosehip Way National Technical University Recent Books – I. Netuka & V. Souˇcek ................................................................ Lychpit of Athens 54 Basingstoke RG24 8SW, UK Zografou Campus e-mail: [email protected] GR-15780 Athens, Greece e-mail: [email protected]. Editors Erhard Scholz University Wuppertal The views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the Chris Budd Department C, Mathematics, authors and do not necessarily represent those of the and Interdisciplinary Center (Applied Math./Applications EMS or the Editorial Team. of Math.) for Science and Technology Department of Mathematical Studies (IZWT), ISSN 1027-488X 42907 Wuppertal, Germany Sciences, University of Bath © 2009 European Mathematical Society Bath BA2 7AY, UK e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Published by the Vladimír Souček EMS Publishing House Jorge Buescu (Recent Books) Dep. Matemática, Faculdade ETH-Zentrum FLI C4 Mathematical Institute CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. de Ciências, Edifício C6, Charles University Piso 2 Campo Grande Sokolovská 83 homepage: www.ems-ph.org 1749-006 Lisboa, Portugal 186 75 Praha 8 e-mail: [email protected] Czech Republic For advertisements contact: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] EMS Newsletter June 2009 1 EMS News EMS Executive Committee EMS Agenda President Ordinary Members 2009 Prof. Ari Laptev Prof. Zvi Artstein 8–11 June (2007–10)