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American Mathematical Society NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Obituary Feature Interview Centres Paul Malliavin Zurich Notebook John Milnor ASSMS, Lahore p. 17 p. 21 p. 31 p. 42 September 2011 Issue 81 ISSN 1027-488X S E European M M Mathematical E S Society Contents Editorial Team European Editor-in-Chief Jorge Buescu (Book Reviews) Vicente Muñoz Dep. Matemática, Faculdade Facultad de Matematicas de Ciências, Edifício C6, Universidad Complutense Piso 2 Campo Grande Mathematical de Madrid 1749-006 Lisboa, Portugal Plaza de Ciencias 3, e-mail: [email protected] 28040 Madrid, Spain Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov e-mail: [email protected] Society (Personal Column) FB3 Mathematik Associate Editors University of Bremen Postfach 330440 Newsletter No. 81, September 2011 Vasile Berinde D-28334 Bremen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eva Miranda EMS Agenda .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Universitatea de Nord Departament de Matemàtica Editorial – S. Jackowski ......................................................................................................................... 3 Baia Mare Aplicada I Facultatea de Stiinte EPSEB, Edifici P The Meeting of Presidents – M. Mathieu ........................................................................ 5 Str. Victoriei, nr. 76 Universitat Politècnica 430072, Baia Mare, Romania de Catalunya The First EMS-ERCE Label Attributed to ASSMS Lahore ............................. 7 e-mail: [email protected] Av. del Dr Maran˜on 44–50 Cooperation agreement between the EMS and UMALCA – Krzysztof Ciesielski 08028 Barcelona, Spain e-mail: [email protected] (Societies) C. Di Prisco ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 Mathematics Institute th Mădălina Păcurar ICMP12 – 17 International Congress on Mathematical Physics ...... 9 Jagiellonian University (Book Reviews) Łojasiewicza 6 Department of Statistics, EUROMATH 2011 Conference – G. Makrides ........................................................... 10 PL-30-348, Kraków, Poland Forecast and Mathematics e-mail: [email protected] Babes ,-Bolyai University International Mathematical Summer School for Students – T. Mihaili St. 58–60 Martin Raussen M. Andler, E. Ghys, V. Kleptsyn, D. Schleicher & S. Tabachnikov 12 Department of Mathematical 400591 Cluj-Napoca, Romania Sciences e-mail: [email protected]; The Dissemination of Mathematics in Brazil – C. Camacho ................... 15 Aalborg University e-mail: [email protected] Paul Malliavin – A. Thalmaier ......................................................................................................... 17 Fredrik Bajers Vej 7G Frédéric Paugam DK-9220 Aalborg Øst, Institut de Mathématiques Einstein’s ‘Zurich Notebook’ – P. Crawford ................................................................. 21 Denmark de Jussieu Interview with John Milnor – M. Raussen & C. Skau ....................................... e-mail: [email protected] 175, rue de Chevaleret 31 Robin Wilson F-75013 Paris, France Centres: ASSMS-Lahore ....................................................................................................................... 42 Pembroke College, e-mail: [email protected] Oxford OX1 1DW, England ICMI Column – M. Bartolini Bussi ............................................................................................. 44 e-mail: [email protected] Ulf Persson Matematiska Vetenskaper “Solid Findings” in Mathematics Education .................................................................. 46 th Chalmers tekniska högskola 80 anniversary of Zentralblatt Math – S. Göbel .................................................. 49 Copy Editor S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden e-mail: [email protected] Book Reviews ...................................................................................................................................................... 54 Chris Nunn 119 St Michaels Road, Themistocles M. Rassias Problem Corner – Th. M. Rassias ............................................................................................. 59 Aldershot, GU12 4JW, UK (Problem Corner) Department of Mathematics e-mail: [email protected] National Technical University of Athens Editors Zografou Campus GR-15780 Athens, Greece Mariolina Bartolini Bussi e-mail: [email protected]. (Math. Education) The views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the Erhard Scholz authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Dip. Matematica – Universitá (History) Via G. Campi 213/b University Wuppertal EMS or the Editorial Team. I-41100 Modena, Italy Department C, Mathematics, ISSN 1027-488X e-mail: [email protected] and Interdisciplinary Center for Science and Technology © 2011 European Mathematical Society Chris Budd Studies (IZWT), Published by the Department of Mathematical 42907 Wuppertal, Germany EMS Publishing House Sciences, University of Bath e-mail: [email protected] Bath BA2 7AY, UK ETH-Zentrum FLI C4 e-mail: [email protected] Olaf Teschke CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. (Zentralblatt Column) homepage: www.ems-ph.org FIZ Karlsruhe Franklinstraße 11 For advertisements contact: [email protected] D-10587 Berlin, Germany e-mail: [email protected] EMS Newsletter September 2011 1 EMS News EMS Executive Committee EMS Agenda President Ordinary Members 2011 Prof. Marta Sanz-Solé Prof. Zvi Artstein 5–9 September (2011–2014) (2009–2012) 15th General Meeting of European Women in Mathematics, University of Barcelona Department of Mathematics CRM, Barcelona Faculty of Mathematics The Weizmann Institute of www.crm.cat/ewm/ Gran Via de les Corts Science Catalanes 585 Rehovot, Israel 5–9 September E-08007 Barcelona, Spain e-mail: [email protected] Fourth European Summer School in Financial Mathematics e-mail:[email protected] Prof. Franco Brezzi Zurich, Switzerland (2009–2012) www.math.ethz.ch/finance/summerschool/ Vice-Presidents Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche del 2–4 October C.N.R. Meeting of the EMS Education Committee, Barcelona, Spain Prof. Mireille Martin- Günter Törner: [email protected] Deschamps via Ferrata 3 27100, Pavia, Italy (2011–2014) 7–9 October e-mail: [email protected] Département de Mathématiques EMS-RSME Mathematical Weekend, Bilbao, Spain Bâtiment Fermat Prof. Rui Loja Fernandes www.ehu.es/emsweekend/ 45, avenue des Etats-Unis (2011–2014) F-78030 Versailles Cedex Departamento de Matematica 20 October France Instituto Superior Tecnico Meeting of the EMS Applied Math Committee, Frankfurt, e-mail: [email protected] Av. Rovisco Pais Germany Dr. Martin Raussen 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal Mario Primicerio: [email protected] (2011–2012) e-mail: [email protected] Department of Mathematical Prof. Igor Krichever 31 October–4 November Sciences, Aalborg University (2009–2012) The hyperbolic and Riemannian geometry of surfaces and Fredrik Bajers Vej 7G Department of Mathematics other manifolds. A conference in honour of Peter Buser DK-9220 Aalborg Øst Columbia University Ascona, Switzerland Denmark 2990 Broadway homeweb.unifr.ch/parlierh/pub/Buser/ e-mail: [email protected] New York, NY 10027, USA and 19–20 November Secretary Landau Institute of Meeting of the RPA Committee, Bilbao, Spain Ehrhard Behrends: [email protected] Dr. Stephen Huggett Theoretical Physics (2011–2014) Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow 25–27 November School of Mathematics e-mail: [email protected] Executive Committee Meeting, Firenze, Italy and Statistics Stephen Huggett: [email protected] University of Plymouth Prof. Volker Mehrmann (2011–2014) 2012 Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK Institut für Mathematik e-mail: [email protected] TU Berlin MA 4–5 17–19 February Strasse des 17. Juni 136 Executive Committee Meeting, Slovenia Treasurer D-10623 Berlin, Germany Stephen Huggett: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Prof. Jouko Väänänen 23–24 March (2011–2014) EMS Secretariat Meeting of ERCOM. Budapest, Hungary. Department of Mathematics and Statistics Ms. Terhi Hautala 31 March–1 April Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b Department of Mathematics Meeting of presidents of EMS member mathematical societies, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki and Statistics Prague, Czech Republic Finland P.O. Box 68 Stephen Huggett: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b) and FI-00014 University of Helsinki 14 April Institute for Logic, Language Finland Meeting of the EMS Committee for Developing Countries, and Computation Tel: (+358)-9-191 51503 Limoges, France University of Amsterdam Fax: (+358)-9-191 51400 Tsou Sheung Tsun: [email protected] Plantage Muidergracht 24 e-mail: [email protected] 1018 TV Amsterdam Web site: http://www.euro-math-soc.eu 30 June–1 July The Netherlands Council Meeting of European Mathematical Society, Kraków, e-mail: [email protected] EMS Publicity Officer Poland www.euro-math-soc.eu Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov FB3 Mathematik 2–7 July University of Bremen 6th European Mathematical Congress, Kraków, Poland Postfach 330440 www.euro-math-soc.eu D-28334 Bremen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] 2 EMS Newsletter September 2011 Editorial Editorial Stefan Jackowski (President of the Polish Mathematical Society)
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