CONTENTS EDITORIAL TEAM EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROBIN WILSON Department of Pure Mathematics The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK e-mail:
[email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITORS STEEN MARKVORSEN Department of Mathematics Technical University of Denmark Building 303 NEWSLETTER No. 36 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark e-mail:
[email protected] KRZYSZTOF CIESIELSKI June 2000 Mathematics Institute Jagiellonian University Reymonta 4 30-059 Kraków, Poland EMS News : Agenda, Editorial, 3ecm, Bedlewo Meeting, Limes Project ........... 2 e-mail:
[email protected] KATHLEEN QUINN Open University [address as above] Catalan Mathematical Society ........................................................................... 3 e-mail:
[email protected] SPECIALIST EDITORS The Hilbert Problems ....................................................................................... 10 INTERVIEWS Steen Markvorsen [address as above] SOCIETIES Interview with Peter Deuflhard ....................................................................... 14 Krzysztof Ciesielski [address as above] EDUCATION Vinicio Villani Interview with Jaroslav Kurzweil ..................................................................... 16 Dipartimento di Matematica Via Bounarotti, 2 56127 Pisa, Italy A Major Challenge for Mathematicians ........................................................... 20 e-mail:
[email protected] MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS Paul Jainta EMS Position Paper: Towards a European Research Area ............................. 24