Menu languages: (Articles in Spanish can be found here)
News
Abel prize ceremony in Oslo
On May 21 the Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne received the Abel prize 2013 from the Norwegian King in the aula of the university in Oslo.
Simons Lecture in Berlin
In the year "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013" there are nine lectures for the general public that are sponsored generously by the Simons foundation. The only European Simons lecture will take place in Berlin on May 23. There Rupert Klein will speak on "Klimathematik - Modelle, Daten und Strukturen".
Euromath 2013
The annual European conference Euromath for (highschool) students took place this year in Gothenburg, Sweden (April 10-14, 2013).
The Abel prize winner was announced on March 20, 2013
The Abel Prize winner 2013 is Pierre Deligne from Stanford University.
Leer más: The Abel prize winner was announced on March 20, 2013
Stamps and the history of mathematics
There are new articles (von Neumann, Pascal and Riemann) in our section "Stamps and the history of mathematics".
Macedonian in our dictionary
Our "Mathematical dictionary of European languages" provides translations of mathematical terms in 21 languages. Since December 2012 we also offer Macedonian.
Mathematics-in-Europe.eu on Facebook
Please visit and like our new Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/EUMaths
We also have a new Twitter page to keep you always updated:
http://twitter.com/MathsInEurope
Mathematics in Europe on Facebook!
Mathematics in Europe is now on Facebook! In our launch week we will feature a lot of Christmas Maths.
Please help us to spread the word and share our page:
www.facebook.com/EUMaths
MPE2013 launched
The initiative Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013) was launched on December 7, 2012. The European MPE activities will start with the MPE2013 day at the UNESCO in Paris on March 5, 2013. More information on this event can be found on the MPE2013 homepage and also here on www.mathematics-in-europe.eu.
A compilation of these activities can be found here.
Mathematical Advent calendar
Also this year the Berlin DFG research center "Matheon" and the German Mathematical Union (DMV) presents a Mathematical Advent Calendar (in German).
WMY2000
The year 2000 was the "World Mathematical Year 2000". Until 2012 the associated web page was hosted in France.
Since September 2012 one finds the material here on www.mathematics-in-europe.eu.
Raising public awareness of mathematics
The book "Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics" appeared this August, 2012.
6th ECM in Kraków
The 6th European Congress of Mathematics is held b etween July 2 and July 7, 2012 in Kraków, Poland. The committee "raising the public awareness of mathematics" of the European Mathematical Society presents the special project "Mathematics in the streets of Kraków" at this occasion.
Hirzebruch died
The first president of the European Mathematical Society, Friedrich Hirzebruch, has passed away.
Heidelberg laureate forum
The Klaus Tschira Stiftung will establish the "Heidelberg Laureate Forum" where Abel, Fields and Turing laureates will meet the next generation of scientists.
Abel prize ceremony
This year's Abel prize ceremony took place in Oslo on May 22.Zoom sur les métiers des mathématiques
English translations of the French brochure "Zoom sur les métiers des mathématiques" concerned with mathematical professions are now available on www.mathematics-in-europe.eu.
Euromath 2012
The 4th European Student Conference in Mathematics (EUROMATH 2012) took place in Sofia.
The mathematical calendar
New in mathematics-in-europe.eu: Read the new mathematical calendar!
Serbia joins mathematics-in-europe.eu
New in mathematics-in-europe.eu: Serbia is now also represented in our web site.
Szemerédy wins Abel prize
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2012 to Endre Szemerédi (Hungary, USA). The award ceremony will take place in Oslo on 22 May.
Abel prize announcement
The Abel prize ceremony 2012 will take place on the 22nd of May in Oslo. The laureate will be announced on March 21.
A competition
In connection with the year "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013" there will be a competition of virtual modules for an open source exhibition: The prizes range from US$2000 to US$5000.
MPE2013
The year 2013 will be the year of "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013".
Bridges Conference 2011
The conference "Bridges 2011" on Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture and Culture took place at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in July, 2011.
IMAGINARY
The successful exhibition IMAGINARY is now shown permanently in the Deutsches Museum, Munich.
Raúl Ibanez Torres receives COSCE prize
Raúl Ibañez Torres, the Spanish member of the committee "raising public awareness of mathematics" of the European Mathematical Society has received the Prize for Dissamination of Science 2011 in Spain (June 2011).
Nuno Crato elected as minister for research and education
Nuno Crato, a member of the committee "raising the public awareness of mathematics" of the EMS, is the minister of research and education in the new Portuguese government (June 2011).
Leer más: Nuno Crato elected as minister for research and education
Euromath 2011
Between March 30 and April 3, 2011, the student conference "Euromath 2011" took place in Athens, Greece.
Abel Prize 2011: announcement of the prize winner
On March 23, 2011, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences has announced that the Abel Prize 2011 will be awarded to John Milnor, Stone Brook University, NY.
IMU office opens in Berlin
Since February 1, 2011, the International Mathematical Union (IMU) has a permanent office in Berlin.
The new president of the EMS
Since the beginning of 2011 the European Mathematical Society has a new president: Marta Sanz-Solé from the university of Barcelona (Spain).
Mandelbrot (10/2010)
The Franco-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot died on October 14 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the founder of the theory of fractals.
The Óbidos workshop
A meeting on "Public awareness of mathematics" took place in Óbidos (Portugal) ...
ICM2010
The international congress of mathematicians 2010 took place this year in Hyderabad, India. At the opening ceremony the Fields medals and three other prizes were awarded.
Perelman
The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) announces today (March 18, 2010) that Dr. Grigoriy Perelman of St. Petersburg, Russia, is the recipient of the Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture. The citation for the award reads: The Clay Mathematics Institute hereby awards the Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture to Grigoriy Perelman.