Fwd: : Gnedenko Meeting.

[Maria-Gabriella Ottaviani <Mariagabriella.Ottaviani@uniroma1.it>]

>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:37:47 +1200 (NZST)
>From: David Vere-Jones <David.Vere-Jones@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
>To: Maria-Gabriella Ottaviani <Mariagabriella.Ottaviani@uniroma1.it>
>Subject: RE: Gnedenko Meeting.
>
>
>Heading:  Education and History Session at the Gnedenko Anniversary
>Meeting, Kiev, June 3-7 2002
>
>This meeting is being held to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the
>birth of Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, the outstanding probabilist,
>writer, and teacher who died a few years ago. Details about the Meeting
>can be found on the Website http://ln.com.ua/~tbimc/gnedenko.
>
>
>Teaching and education were central aspects of Gnedenko's life and work,
>reflected in his lectures, his textbooks and
>other educational writings, and his constant concern for the personal and
>mathematical development of his students. Reflecting this interest, one
>session of the Conference
>will be devoted to education and history issues. As a former student of
>Gnedenko's, I have been asked to co-chair this session, and would
>especially like to bring the Meeting to the attention of members of IASE.
>Contributions with an educational theme, whether at school or tertiary
>level, would be welcome, the more so if they can reflect some facet of
>Gnedenko's interests.  At the same time, I hope that the Meeting may
>provide an opportunity to stimulate interest in IASE activities among
>teachers and academic staff in countries of Eastern Europe, where
>Gnedenko did much to help restore programmes in probability amnd
>statistics in
>the period following the second World War. Please feel free to contact me
>(david.vere-jones@vuw.ac.nz) if you would like to discuss any of these
>issues further.
>
>            David Vere-Jones.