Menu languages: (Articles in Serbian can be found here)
News
Опширније: 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.
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
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).
Tell us about your favorite math item on the web! More ...
The quotation of the day
The infinite has always stirred the emotions of mankind more deeply than any other question; the infinite has stimulated and fertilized reason as a few other ideas have”.
(David Hilbert)
Historical reminder
On May 22, 1916, Andrey Vasilevich Bitsadze was born in Kutaisi Province (Georgia, Russian Empire). In 1971, he moved to Moscow, where he became head of the department of partial differential equations at the Steklov Institute. His main work was in partial differential and integral equations. Bitsadze died on April 6, 1994, in Moscow. More information (in Russian) can be found here.
The popular article of the day
Sewing a football A well known saying by the famous German football-coach Sepp Herberger is "The ball is round" ("Der Ball ist rund."). Is it really?