NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Feature S E European From Grothendieck to Naor M M Mathematical Interview E S Society Ragni Piene March 2018 Obituary Issue 107 Maryam Mirzakhani ISSN 1027-488X Rome, venue of the EMS Executve Committee Meeting, 23–25 March 2018 EMS Monograph Award – Call for Submissions The EMS Monograph Award is assigned every year to the author(s) Submission of manuscripts of a monograph in any area of mathematics that is judged by the selection committee to be an outstanding contribution to its field. The monograph must be original and unpublished, written in The prize is endowed with 10,000 Euro and the winning mono- English and should not be submitted elsewhere until an edito- graph will be published by the EMS Publishing House in the series rial decision is rendered on the submission. Monographs should “EMS Tracts in Mathematics”. preferably be typeset in TeX. Authors should send a pdf file of the manuscript by email to: Previous prize winners were - Patrick Dehornoy et al. for the monograph Foundations of [email protected] Garside Theory, - Augusto C. Ponce (Elliptic PDEs, Measures and Capacities. Scientific Committee From the Poisson Equation to Nonlinear Thomas–Fermi Problems), John Coates (University of Cambridge, UK) - Vincent Guedj and Ahmed Zeriahi (Degenerate Complex Pierre Degond (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) Monge–Ampere Equations), and Carlos Kenig (University of Chicago, USA) - Yves de Cornulier and Pierre de la Harpe (Metric Geometry of Jaroslav Nesˇetrˇil (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Locally Compact Groups). Michael Röckner (Universität Bielefeld, Germany, and Purdue University, USA) All books were published in the Tracts series. Vladimir Turaev (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) The deadline for the next award, to be announced in 2019, is 30 June 2018. EMS Tracts in Mathematics Most recent titles: Editorial Board: Vol. 28 Antoine Henrot and Michel Pierre: Shape Variation and Optimization. Carlos E. Kenig A Geometrical Analysis (University of Chicago, USA) 978-3-03719-178-1. 2018. 379 pages. 68.00 Euro Michael Farber Vol. 27 Nicolas Raymond: Bound States of the Magnetic Schrödinger (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Operator Michael Röckner 978-3-03719-169-9. 2017. 394 pages. 64.00 Euro (Universität Bielefeld, Germany, Vol. 26 Vincent Guedj and Ahmed Zeriahi: Degenerate Complex Monge– and Purdue University, USA) Ampère Equations Vladimir Turaev 978-3-03719-167-5. 2017. 496 pages. 88.00 Euro (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) Vol. 25 Yves Cornulier and Pierre de la Harpe: Metric Geometry of Locally Alexander Varchenko Compact Groups (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) ISBN 978-3-03719-166-8. 2016. 243 pages. 62.00 Euro Vol. 24 Hans Triebel: Hybrid Function Spaces, Heat and Navier-Stokes Equations This series includes advanced texts and monographs covering all fields in pure 978-3-03719-150-7. 2015. 196 pages. 48.00 Euro and applied mathematics. Tracts will give a reliable introduction and reference to special fields of current research. The books in the series will in most cases be Forthcoming title: authored monographs, although edited volumes may be published if appropriate. They are addressed to graduate students seeking access to research topics as well Alexander V. Kosyak: Regular, Quasiregular and Induced Representations of as to the experts in the field working at the frontier of research. Infinite-dimensional Groups European Mathematical Society Publishing House Scheuchzerstrasse 70 [email protected] Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH-Zentrum SEW A21 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland www.ems-ph.org Contents Editorial Team Editor-in-Chief Gemma Huguet European (Research Centres) Valentin Zagrebnov Departament de Matemàtiques Institut de Mathématiques de ETSEIB-UPC Marseille (UMR 7373) – CMI Avda. Diagonal 647 Mathematical Technopôle Château-Gombert 08028 Barcelona, Spain 39, rue F. Joliot Curie e-mail: [email protected] 13453 Marseille Cedex 13, France Vladimir R. Kostic Society e-mail: [email protected] (Social Media) Department of Mathematics Copy Editor and Informatics University of Novi Sad Newsletter No. 107, March 2018 Chris Nunn 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia 119 St Michaels Road, e-mail: [email protected] Aldershot, GU12 4JW, UK Editorial – Message from the President - P. Exner ....................... 3 e-mail: [email protected] Octavio Paniagua Taboada (zbMATH Column) Farewells within the Editorial Board of the EMS Newsletter .......... 4 Editors FIZ Karlsruhe New Editors Appointed .............................................................. 4 Franklinstr. 11 Jean-Paul Allouche 10587 Berlin, Germany The EMS Gordin Prize ................................................................ 5 (Book Reviews) e-mail: [email protected] Annales Henri Lebesgue - X. Caruso et al. ................................. 6 IMJ-PRG, UPMC 4, Place Jussieu, Case 247 Vladimir L. Popov From Grothendieck to Naor: A Stroll Through the Metric 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France (Features and Discussions) Analysis of Banach Spaces - G. Godefroy ................................ 9 e-mail: [email protected] Steklov Mathematical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences Interview with Ragni Piene - U. A. Persson .................................. 17 Jean-Bernard Bru Gubkina 8 History of Mathematics in the Netherlands: Where to find it (Contacts with SMF) 119991 Moscow, Russia Departamento de Matemáticas e-mail: [email protected] D. Beckers ............................................................................ 23 Universidad del País Vasco Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) - A. Zorich ............................. 28 Apartado 644 Michael Th. Rassias 48080 Bilbao, Spain (Problem Corner) A Mathematical Polyglot - E. Strickland ...................................... 34 e-mail: [email protected] Institute of Mathematics Pi Day: An International Festival of Mathematics - University of Zurich Fernando Pestana da Costa Winterthurerstrasse 190 E. Berardini et al. .................................................................. 36 (Societies) 8057 Zürich Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris (FSMP) - Depto de Ciências e Tecnolo- e-mail: [email protected] gia, Secção de Matemática, G. Octavia ............................................................................. 37 Universidade Aberta Volker R. Remmert The Turkish Mathematical Society - B. Tanbay & A. As¸kar ........... 40 Rua da Escola Politécnica, nº (History of Mathematics) 141–147 IZWT, Wuppertal University ICMI Column - J.-L. Dorier ......................................................... 42 1269-001 Lisboa, Portugal D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany ERME Column - O. Buchbinder et al. .......................................... 45 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Mathematicians and Primary School Teachers Learning Jean-Luc Dorier Vladimir Salnikov From Each Other - J. Cooper & A. Arcavi ................................. 46 (Math. Education) (Young Mathematicians’ Column) FPSE – Université de Genève La Rochelle University Book Reviews ........................................................................... 52 Bd du pont d’Arve, 40 LaSIE, Avenue Michel Crépeau Solved and Unsolved Problems - M. Th. Rassias .......................... 57 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland 17042 La Rochelle Cedex 1, e-mail: [email protected] France e-mail: [email protected] Javier Fresán (Young Mathematicians’ Column) Dierk Schleicher Centre de Mathématiques (Features and Discussions) The views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the Laurent Schwartz Research I authors and do not necessarily represent those of the École Polytechnique Jacobs University Bremen EMS or the Editorial Team. 91128 Palaiseau, France Postfach 750 561 e-mail: [email protected] 28725 Bremen, Germany ISSN 1027-488X e-mail: [email protected] © 2018 European Mathematical Society Published by the EMS Publishing House ETH-Zentrum SEW A21 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. homepage: www.ems-ph.org Scan the QR code to go to the Newsletter web page: For advertisements and reprint permission requests http://euro-math-soc.eu/newsletter contact: [email protected] EMS Newsletter March 2018 1 EMS Agenda EMS Executive Committee EMS Agenda President Prof. Stefan Jackowski 2018 (2017–2020) Prof. Pavel Exner Institute of Mathematics 13 – 15 April (2015–2018) University of Warsaw Meeting of Presidents, Maynooth University, Dublin, Ireland Doppler Institute Banacha 2 Czech Technical University 02-097 Warszawa 23 – 24 June Brˇehová 7 Poland EMS Council, Prague, Czech Republic 11519 Prague 1 e-mail: [email protected] Czech Republic Prof. Vicente Muñoz 29 – 30 July e-mail: [email protected] (2017–2020) IMU General Assembly, São Paulo, Brazil Departamento de Geometria y Vice-Presidents Topologia Facultad de Matematicas Prof. Volker Mehrmann Universidad Complutense de EMS Scientific Events (2017–2018) Madrid Institut für Mathematik Plaza de Ciencias 3 2018 TU Berlin MA 4–5 28040 Madrid Strasse des 17. Juni 136 Spain 3 – 6 April 10623 Berlin e-mail: [email protected] British Congress of Mathematics Education, Warwick, UK Germany Prof. Beatrice Pelloni e-mail: [email protected] (2017–2020) 4 – 6 April Prof. Armen Sergeev School of Mathematical & Probability, Analysis and Dynamics ’18, (2017–2020) Computer Sciences University of Bristol, UK Steklov Mathematical Institute Heriot-Watt University Russian Academy of Sciences Edinburgh EH14 4AS