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European Mathematical Society CONTENTS EDITORIAL TEAM EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MARTIN RAUSSEN Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University Fredrik Bajers Vej 7G DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark e-mail: [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITORS VASILE BERINDE Department of Mathematics, University of Baia Mare, Romania NEWSLETTER No. 52 e-mail: [email protected] KRZYSZTOF CIESIELSKI Mathematics Institute June 2004 Jagiellonian University Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland EMS Agenda ........................................................................................................... 2 e-mail: [email protected] STEEN MARKVORSEN Editorial by Ari Laptev ........................................................................................... 3 Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark, Building 303 EMS Summer Schools.............................................................................................. 6 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark EC Meeting in Helsinki ........................................................................................... 6 e-mail: [email protected] ROBIN WILSON On powers of 2 by Pawel Strzelecki ........................................................................ 7 Department of Pure Mathematics The Open University A forgotten mathematician by Robert Fokkink ..................................................... 9 Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK e-mail: [email protected] Quantum Cryptography by Nuno Crato ............................................................ 15 COPY EDITOR: KELLY NEIL Household names in Swedish mathematics by Kjell-Ove Widman ..................... 17 School of Mathematics University of Southampton "Sauvons la recherche" ......................................................................................... 21 Highfield SO17 1BJ, UK e-mail: [email protected] Portugal in the 1st years of the IMU by E. Hernandez-Manfredini, A. Ramos ........ 23 SPECIALIST EDITORS INTERVIEWS Interview with Ari Laptev ...................................................................................... 25 Steen Markvorsen [address as above] SOCIETIES ERCOM: EURANDOM (Eindhoven) ....................................................................28 Krzysztof Ciesielski [address as above] EDUCATION Abel Prize, ICME-10 and ICMI awards ............................................................... 30 Tony Gardiner University of Birmingham Forthcoming Conferences ..................................................................................... 36 Birmingham B15 2TT, UK e-mail: [email protected] Recent Books .......................................................................................................... 39 MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS Paul Jainta Designed and printed by Armstrong Press Limited Werkvolkstr. 10 Crosshouse Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 5GZ, UK D-91126 Schwabach, Germany telephone: (+44) 23 8033 3132 fax: (+44) 23 8033 3134 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] ANNIVERSARIES June Barrow-Green and Jeremy Gray Published by European Mathematical Society Open University [address as above] ISSN 1027 - 488X e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] The views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the authors and do not necessari- CONFERENCES Vasile Berinde [address as above] ly represent those of the EMS or the Editorial team. 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  • List of Members
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