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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
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
(Henri Poincaré)
Historical reminder
On May 25, 1828, Karl Mikhailovich Peterson was born in Riga (Latvia). He did important work on the characteristics of partial differential equations and on differential geometry, where he opened new avenues of investigation and discovered properties of curves and surfaces. Peterson died on April 19, 1887, in Moscow. More information can be found here.
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A pop quiz paradox
A man commits a crime and is sentenced to death. The judge ...