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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.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 June 2013 are provided Sara Santos from the UK. Visit the "festival of the spoken nerd": http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/
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The quotation of the day
The mathematicians are a sort of Frenchman: When you talk to them, they immediately translate it into their own language and right away it is something entirely different.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Historical reminder
On June 18, 1856, Andrew Russell Forsyth was born in Glasgow (Scotland). He wrote numerous articles and textbooks on complex analysis, the theory of differential equations, the calculus of variations, and other areas. Forsyth died on June 2, 1942, in London. More information can be found here.
The popular article of the day
The Reuleaux Stones A classic question in Microsoft job interviews in the 1990s was the following: why are manhole covers (or sewer lids) round?