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Just visit: Don’t forget to claim your EMS discount! 1 www.oup.com/uk/emailnews EMS dEC 2011.indd 1 11/21/2011 4:22:03 PM Contents Editorial Team European Editor-in-Chief Jorge Buescu (Book Reviews) Vicente Muñoz Dep. Matemática, Faculdade Facultad de Matematicas de Ciências, Edifício C6, Universidad Complutense Piso 2 Campo Grande Mathematical de Madrid 1749-006 Lisboa, Portugal Plaza de Ciencias 3, e-mail: [email protected] 28040 Madrid, Spain Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov e-mail: [email protected] Society FB3 Mathematik University of Bremen Associate Editors Postfach 330440 D-28334 Bremen, Germany Newsletter No. 82, December 2011 e-mail: [email protected] Vasile Berinde Department of Mathematics Eva Miranda and Computer Science Departament de Matemàtica EMS Agenda .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Universitatea de Nord Aplicada I Editorial – V. Muñoz & M. Raussen ......................................................................................... 3 Baia Mare EPSEB, Edifici P Facultatea de Stiinte Universitat Politècnica Registration for the 6ECM – K. Jaworska ....................................................................... 4 Str. Victoriei, nr. 76 de Catalunya 430072, Baia Mare, Romania Av. del Dr Maran˜on 44–50 EMS-RSME Joint Mathematical Weekend in Bilbao – e-mail: [email protected] 08028 Barcelona, Spain G.A. Fernández-Alcober, L. Martínez & J. Sangroniz ....................... 6 Krzysztof Ciesielski e-mail: [email protected] 25 Year Anniversary of EWM – L. Fajstrup .................................................................... 8 (Societies) Mădălina Păcurar Mathematics Institute (Personal Column) Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme – L. Lemaire ....................... 10 Jagiellonian University Department of Statistics, Łojasiewicza 6 Forecast and Mathematics Evaluation at IST – R.L. Fernandes .......................................................................................... 13 PL-30-348, Kraków, Poland Babes ,-Bolyai University e-mail: [email protected] T. Mihaili St. 58–60 Newton, the Geometer – N. Bloye & S. Huggett ..................................................... 19 400591 Cluj-Napoca, Romania Martin Raussen Galois and his Groups – Peter M. Neumann ................................................................. 29 Department of Mathematical e-mail: [email protected]; Sciences e-mail: [email protected] Interview with Constantin Corduneanu – V. Berinde........................................... 38 Aalborg University Frédéric Paugam Centres: Feza Gürsey Institute – K. Aker, A. Mardin & A. Nesin ........ 43 Fredrik Bajers Vej 7G Institut de Mathématiques DK-9220 Aalborg Øst, de Jussieu Societies: The German Mathematical Society – T. Vogt ................................ 46 Denmark 175, rue de Chevaleret e-mail: [email protected] ICMI Column: Capacity & Networking Project – B. Barton .......................... 49 F-75013 Paris, France Robin Wilson e-mail: [email protected] Solid Findings in Mathematics Education ......................................................................... 50 Pembroke College, Oxford OX1 1DW, England Ulf Persson Zentralblatt Column: Negligible Numbers – O. Teschke ............................... 54 e-mail: [email protected] Matematiska Vetenskaper Book Reviews ...................................................................................................................................................... Chalmers tekniska högskola 56 S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Letter to the Editor ........................................................................................................................................ 61 Copy Editor e-mail: [email protected] Personal Column ............................................................................................................................................. 64 Chris Nunn Themistocles M. Rassias 119 St Michaels Road, (Problem Corner) Aldershot, GU12 4JW, UK Department of Mathematics e-mail: [email protected] National Technical University of Athens Zografou Campus Editors GR-15780 Athens, Greece e-mail: [email protected]. Mariolina Bartolini Bussi Erhard Scholz (Math. Education) The views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the (History) authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Dip. Matematica – Universitá University Wuppertal Via G. Campi 213/b Department C, Mathematics, EMS or the