NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Features Epimorphism Theorem Prime Numbers Interview J.-P. Bourguignon Societies European Physical Society Research Centres ESI Vienna December 2013 Issue 90 ISSN 1027-488X S E European M M Mathematical E S Society Cover photo: Jean-François Dars Mathematics and Computer Science from EDP Sciences www.esaim-cocv.org www.mmnp-journal.org www.rairo-ro.org www.esaim-m2an.org www.esaim-ps.org www.rairo-ita.org Contents Editorial Team European Editor-in-Chief Ulf Persson Matematiska Vetenskaper Lucia Di Vizio Chalmers tekniska högskola Université de Versailles- S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden St Quentin e-mail: [email protected] Mathematical Laboratoire de Mathématiques 45 avenue des États-Unis Zdzisław Pogoda 78035 Versailles cedex, France Institute of Mathematicsr e-mail: [email protected] Jagiellonian University Society ul. prof. Stanisława Copy Editor Łojasiewicza 30-348 Kraków, Poland Chris Nunn e-mail: [email protected] Newsletter No. 90, December 2013 119 St Michaels Road, Aldershot, GU12 4JW, UK Themistocles M. Rassias Editorial: Meetings of Presidents – S. Huggett ............................ 3 e-mail: [email protected] (Problem Corner) Department of Mathematics A New Cover for the Newsletter – The Editorial Board ................. 5 Editors National Technical University Jean-Pierre Bourguignon: New President of the ERC .................. 8 of Athens, Zografou Campus Mariolina Bartolini Bussi GR-15780 Athens, Greece Peter Scholze to Receive 2013 Sastra Ramanujan Prize – K. Alladi 9 (Math. Education) e-mail: [email protected] DESU – Universitá di Modena e European Level Organisations for Women Mathematicians – Reggio Emilia Volker R. Remmert C. Series ............................................................................... 11 Via Allegri, 9 (History of Mathematics) Forty Years of the Epimorphism Theorem – I-42121 Reggio Emilia, Italy IZWT, Wuppertal University [email protected] D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany P. Russell & A. Sathaye .......................................................... 12 e-mail: [email protected] Jorge Buescu Prime Numbers: Emergence and Victories of Bilinear Forms (Societies) Dierk Schleicher Decomposition – O. Ramaré ................................................... 18 Dep. Matemática, Faculdade School of Engineering and Interview with Jean-Pierre Bourguignon: “Mathematicians must de Ciências, Edifício C6, Science Piso 2 Campo Grande P.O. Box 750 561 move up a gear” – M. Herzlich ............................................... 29 1749-006 Lisboa, Portugal University Bremen In the Mirror of Mathematics – P. Miha˘ilescu .............................. 34 e-mail: [email protected] 28725 Bremen, Germany [email protected] The European Physical Society: Past, Present and Future – Eva-Maria Feichtner J. Dudley & D. Lee ................................................................ 39 (Research Centres) Erhard Scholz Department of Mathematics (History of Mathematics) Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics – University of Bremen University Wuppertal J. Schwermer ....................................................................... 43 28359 Bremen, Germany Department C, Mathematics, e-mail: [email protected] and Interdisciplinary Center Why is University Mathematics Difficult for Students? Solid Findings for Science and Technology about the Secondary-Tertiary Transition – G. Gueudet ............. 46 Eva Miranda Studies (IZWT), Departament de Matemàtica 42907 Wuppertal, Germany ICMI Column – M. Bartolini Bussi & A. Arcavi ............................. 48 Aplicada I, EPSEB, Edifici P e-mail: [email protected] Universitat Politècnica ERME Column – S. Schnell ....................................................... 49 de Catalunya Olaf Teschke “Show Me Your Data! What Publication Records in zbMATH Av. del Dr Maran˜on 44–50 (Zentralblatt Column) Can Say About Women’s Careers in Mathematics” – 08028 Barcelona, Spain FIZ Karlsruhe e-mail: [email protected] Franklinstraße 11 H. Mihaljevic´ -Brandt & L. Santamaría ..................................... 51 10587 Berlin, Germany Book Reviews ........................................................................... 53 Mădălina Păcurar e-mail: [email protected] (Personal Column) Personal Column ...................................................................... 59 Department of Statistics, Jaap Top Forecast and Mathematics University of Groningen The views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the Babes ,-Bolyai University Department of Mathematics T. Mihaili St. 58–60 P.O. Box 407 authors and do not necessarily represent those of the 400591 Cluj-Napoca, Romania 9700 AK Groningen, EMS or the Editorial Team. e-mail: [email protected] The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] ISSN 1027-488X © 2013 European Mathematical Society Published by the EMS Publishing House ETH-Zentrum SEW A27 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. 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