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Подробнее: The Abel prize winner was announced on March 20, 2013Simons 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".The Abel prize winner was announced on March 20, 2013
The Abel Prize winner 2013 is Pierre Deligne from Stanford University.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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No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.
(Leonardo da Vinci)
Historical reminder
On May 19, 1832, Jacques Edmond Emile Bour was born in Gray (France). He worked on differential equations in mechanics as well as perturbation theory and problems of surface deformation. From 1859, he taught at the École Polytechnique. Bour died on March 9, 1866, in Paris. More information can be found here.
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