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Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014)
Alexander Grothendieck, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, passed away November 13. http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/news/14/11/15/alexander-grothendieck-1928-2014
DetailsEuropean Mathematical Society
Newsletter No. 93, September 2014 http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2014-09-93.pdf
DetailsEuropean Mathematical Society
EMS e-News 13, November 2014 http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/e-news
DetailsNotices of the American Mathematical Society
Volume 62, Number 2, February 2015 http://www.ams.org/notices/201502/201502-full-issue.pdf
DetailsThe connection between mathematics and art goes back thousands of years
Mathematics has been used in the design of Gothic cathedrals, Rose windows, oriental rugs, mosaics and tilings. Geometric forms were fundamental to the cubists and many abstract expressionists, and award-winning sculptors have used topology as the basis for their pieces. Dutch artist M.C. Escher represented infinity, Möbius bands, tessellations, deformations, reflections, Platonic solids, spirals, symmetry,…
DetailsOn Teaching and Learning Mathematics
http://blogs.ams.org/matheducation/
Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society
http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2016-06-100.pdf