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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".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.
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The top five inspirations of the month
The favorite math items of May 2013 are provided by Raúl Ibanez from Bilbao (Spain). His first favorite is an interesting science blog (in Spanish).
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The quotation of the day
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
(Niels Bohr)
Historical reminder
On May 26, 1667, Abraham de Moivre was born in Vitry-le-François (France). He worked on practically every mathematical problem of his time, but his most important work was in probability theory. His greatest accomplishment was the discovery of the central limit value for sums of (0, 1) random variables. De Moivre died on November 27, 1754, in London. More information can be found here.
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