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Just visit: www.oup.com/uk/emailnews www.oup.com Contents Editorial Team Editor-in-Chief Mariolina Bartolini Bussi European (Math. Education) Vicente Muñoz Dip. Matematica – Universitá ICMAT – CSIC Via G. Campi 213/b C/Serrano, 113bis I-41100 Modena, Italy Mathematical E-28006, Madrid, Spain e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov FB3 Mathematik Society Associate Editors University of Bremen Postfach 330440 Vasile Berinde D-28334 Bremen, Germany Department of Mathematics e-mail: [email protected] Newsletter No. 73, September 2009 and Computer Science Ivan Netuka Universitatea de Nord (Recent Books) Baia Mare Mathematical Institute EMS Agenda ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 Facultatea de Stiinte Charles University Str. Victoriei, nr. 76 Sokolovská 83 Editorial – M. Artigue ............................................................................................................................ 3 430072, Baia Mare, Romania 186 75 Praha 8 Letters to the Editor .................................................................................................................................. 4 e-mail: [email protected] Czech Republic e-mail: [email protected] Krzysztof Ciesielski Mathematics and its interfaces – A. Laptev ............................................................. 5 (Societies) M d lina P curar Mathematics Institute ă ă ă International Mathematical Olympiad 2009 – (Conferences) Jagiellonian University Department of Statistics, Łojasiewicza 6 H.-D. Gronau & D. Schleicher .................................................................................................. 9 Forecast and Mathematics PL-30-348, Kraków, Poland Babes -Bolyai University Nonlinearizable Holomorphic Dynamics and Hedgehogs – e-mail: [email protected] , T. Mihaili St. 58–60 Martin Raussen 400591 Cluj-Napoca, Romania K. Biswas .............................................................................................................................................................. 11 Department of Mathematical e-mail: [email protected]; Sciences e-mail: [email protected] Interview with Mikhail Gromov – M. Raussen & C. Skau ........................ 19 Aalborg University Richard von Mises – R. Siegmund-Schultze ........................................................... Fredrik Bajers Vej 7G Frédéric Paugam 31 DK-9220 Aalborg Øst, Institut de Mathématiques ERCOM: IHP ...................................................................................................................................................... 35 Denmark de Jussieu 175, rue de Chevaleret e-mail: [email protected] ICMI Column – M. 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