This very interactive exhibition is intented
to show to all visitors that mathematics is:
- astonishing, interesting and useful,
- accessible to everyone,
- plays a large part in daily life,
- that they lead to many trades,
- and has an important role in our culture,
development and progress.
3 copies are in circulation:
• one in
Latin America:
Brazil from April to November, for the France-Brazil year) and return in Chile in January 2010.
• one in
Corea until August 2010
<= • the 3rd, in
West Africa:
Benin (Oct- Nov), before:
Senegal for Emf2oo9
<=and in 2010: Burkina Faso, Niger or Mali...
News 2oo9
=>Virtual interactive Exhibitions =>www.Experiencing Maths.org you will find more than 50 interactive experiences inspired by the exhibition, initiated and supported by UNESCO and aimed maths teachers, in particular in
Southern countries.
=>Dimensions, a new virtual tool for Maths Culture, conceived by mathemacians from ENS-Lyon who present the experiences of
Experiencing Maths exhibition in Region Rhone-Alpes in 2oo9-2o10.
Prizes & Medals
=>Abel Prize 2oo9 to the French-Russian
Mikhail Gromov for his
revolutionary contributions to geometry.
=>Turing Prize 2oo9 to
Barbara Liskov (MIT)
=>Abel Prizes 2oo8 to
J. Thompson (USA) &
J. Tits (Fr)
=>Euler 2oo7
for the Leonard Euler Tercentenary, the exhibition was in Basle, Singapour & Santiago.
=>Fields medals 2oo6 To
G. Perelman (Russia), who refused it,
A. Okounkov (Russia),
W. Werner (France) and
T. Tao (Australia).
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