European Mathematical Society NEWSLETTER No. 22 December 1996 Second European Congress of Mathematics 3 Report on the Second Junior Mathematical Congress 9 Obituary - Paul Erdos . 11 Report on the Council and Executive Committee Meetings . 15 Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Development . 17 Diderot Mathematics Forum . 19 Report on the Prague Mathematical Conference . 21 Preliminary report on EMS Summer School . 22 EMS Lectures . 27 European Won1en in Mathematics . 28 Euronews . 29 Problem Corner . 41 Book Reviews .....48 Produced at the Department of Mathematics, Glasgow Caledonian University Printed by Armstrong Press, Southampton, UK EDITORS Secretary Prof Roy Bradley Peter W. Michor Department of Mathematics Institut fiir Mathematik, Universitiit Wien, Strudlhof Glasgow Caledonian University gasse 4, A-1090 Wien, Austria. GLASGOW G4 OBA, SCOTLAND e-mail:
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