NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Feature History Interview ERCOM Google and Linear Algebra The ICM through History J. Morgan, A. Connes, R. Jeltsch Rényi Institute Budapest p. 10 p. 16 p. 22 p. 36 March 2007 Issue 63 ISSN 1027-488X S E European M M Mathematical E S Society TopologyJournal of It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the Journal of Topology, a new journal that will publish its first issue in January 2008. The Board of the Journal will be: Michael Atiyah • Martin Bridson Ralph Cohen • Simon Donaldson Nigel Hitchin • Frances Kirwan Marc Lackenby • Jean Lannes Wolfgang Lück • John Roe • Graeme Segal Ulrike Tillmann (Managing Editor) Aims and Scope The Journal of Topology will publish papers of high quality and significance in topology, geometry and adjacent areas of mathematics. Interesting, important and often unexpected links connect topology and geometry with many other parts of mathematics, and the editors welcome submissions on exciting new advances concerning such links, as well as those in the core subject areas of the journal. The Journal of Topology will appear in quarterly issues with articles posted individually online. Guidelines for Paper Submission Submissions are currently being welcomed. For information on submitting a paper, please visit www.lms.ac.uk/publications/jtop.html If you have further enquiries about the journal, please contact Susan Hezlet, Publisher LMS, at [email protected], or the Managing Editor at [email protected]. The price of the Journal for Volume 1 (four issues) including electronic access will be £300 or $570 in 2008, although we plan further discounts for libraries who take our other journals. The journal is owned by the London Mathematical Society, a not-for-profit publisher and the pre-eminent British society for research mathematics, and will be published in association with Oxford Journals. All sales enquiries should be made to [email protected] or to [email protected]. Contents Editorial Team European Editor-in-Chief Ana Bela Cruzeiro Departamento de Matemática Martin Raussen Instituto Superior Técnico Department of Mathematical Av. Rovisco Pais Mathematical Sciences 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal Aalborg University e-mail: [email protected] Fredrik Bajers Vej 7G DK-9220 Aalborg Øst, Vicente Muñoz Society Denmark (Book Reviews) e-mail: [email protected] IMAFF – CSIC C/Serrano, 113bis Associate Editors E-28006, Madrid, Spain Newsletter No. 63, March 2007 vicente.munoz @imaff.cfmac.csic.es Vasile Berinde (Conferences) Ivan Netuka EMS Calendar ............................................................................................................................. 2 Department of Mathematics (Recent Books) and Computer Science Mathematical Institute Editorial ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Universitatea de Nord Charles University Baia Mare Sokolovská 83 Facultatea de Stiinte 186 75 Praha 8 News from the Executive Committee ........................................................ 4 Str. Victoriei, nr. 76 Czech Republic 430072, Baia Mare, Romania e-mail: [email protected] European Research Council ................................................................................... 6 e-mail: [email protected] Frédéric Paugam Krzysztof Ciesielski Institut de Mathématiques European Women in Mathematics ................................................................. 8 (Societies) de Jussieu Mathematics Institute 175, rue de Chevaleret Google’s secret and linear algebra – P.F. Gallardo ................. 10 Jagellonian University F-75013 Paris, France Reymonta 4 e-mail: [email protected] ICM through history – G. Curbera ................................................................... 16 PL-30-059, Kraków, Poland e-mail: [email protected] Ulf Persson Interview with J. Morgan – U. Persson .................................................... 22 Matematiska Vetenskaper Robin Wilson Chalmers tekniska högskola Department of Mathematics S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Interview with A. Connes – C. Goldstein & G. Skandalis ... 25 The Open University e-mail: [email protected] Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK Interview with R. Jeltsch – O. Nevanlinna ............................................ 32 e-mail: [email protected] Walter Purkert (History of Mathematics) Copy Editor Hausdorff-Edition ERCOM: Alfréd Rényi Institute Budapest ............................................. 36 Mathematisches Institut Chris Nunn Universität Bonn Solved and Unsolved Problems .............................................................................. 39 4 Rosehip Way Beringstrasse 1 Lychpit D-53115 Bonn, Germany Book Review: Nature of Mathematical Proof – A. Cordoba 45 Basingstoke RG24 8SW, UK e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Forthcoming Conferences ........................................................................................ 46 Themistocles M. Rassias Editors (Problem Corner) Department of Mathematics Recent Books .............................................................................................................................. 51 Giuseppe Anichini National Technical University Dipartimento di Matematica of Athens Applicata „G. Sansone“ Zografou Campus Via S. Marta 3 GR-15780 Athens, Greece I-50139 Firenze, Italy e-mail: [email protected]. e-mail: giuseppe.anichini@unifi .it Vladimír Souček Chris Budd (Recent Books) The views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the (Applied Math./Applications Mathematical Institute authors and do not necessarily represent those of the of Math.) Charles University Department of Mathematical Sokolovská 83 EMS or the Editorial Team. 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