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 in April and for 7 months (for France-Brazil year). Before Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Paraguay, Argentina.
• one in
Corea until March 2010
<= • the 3rd in
Senegal in April-May (Emf2oo9)
<= then other countries of
West Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso...
News 2oo9
=>Virtual interactive Exhibitions On
=>www.Experiencing Maths.orgyou will find interactive experiences inspired by the exhibition, initiated and supported by UNESCO and aimed to secondary 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.
=>Abel Prize 2009
to the Russian-French 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).