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PUBLIC
AWARENESS
FRANCE HAS A STRONG TRADITION OF DISSEMINATING
MATHEMATICS AT ALL LEVELS OF THE SOCIETY
Many large and successful events for the general
public have been organised in France in the last
couple of decades. After the global initiative
2000,
a mathematical year
, three large scale conferences
entitled
Mathématiques à venir
were successively
organized in the 2000s. Open to the general public,
the media and decision makers, they gathered several
hundred participants and were widely reported in the
media. In addition, updated versions of the international
exhibition
Experiencing mathematics
have been
circulating throughout France, reaching a large number
of students. The
Mathematics of Planet Earth
initiative,
officially launched in March 2013 at the Unesco
headquarters, led many French mathematicians to write
short accessible blog posts on what became
Brèves de
maths
.
Some public websites or newsletters involving French
mathematicians:
Images des mathématiques, Interstices,
Brèves de maths or MADDMaths
Raising Public Awareness (RPA) activities in
mathematics are supported by the CNRS through
Around Awareness in Mathematics
(AuDiMath),
a networkwhich brings togethermathematicians involved
in those activities and RPA specialists from mathematical
research institutes as well.
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Paris Invitation
ICM 2022