Natalia Reznik Stones are convenient to chop nuts. Many primates use them for this, some still break the shells of mollusks or shells of crabs with stones. That's all, perhaps. It is not surprising, therefore, the attention of scientists was attracted by the Cherno-lane capacins Sapajus Libidinosus , living in the Brazilian National Park of Serra-da-Capivar, which found the stones much more diverse use [1].

The Board of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society with a deep regret reports that on February 26, 2017, after a severe continuous illness, an academician-secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director of the International Mathematical Institute named after L. Euler, many years of director of the St. Petersburg branch of the Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the St.

Dmitry Rogozin The seventeenth year I am engaged in the methodology of polls of public opinion, study the rules for organizing sample, evaluate displacements, and listen to the features of the question-answer communication. And I do not cease to be surprised at the obvious, striking Nesurazitsa, a complete absurdity that accompanies any conversation about the questionnaire.

Hunting for Spalla and Diastellla The day of work in Ferkluf, as the father said, “helped us to configure optics”: we learned to recognize the plants of interest to us “in the face”. The next two days we used this skill in practice. We traveled along the ocean, climbed into the coastal mountains, returning to the night to Hermanus. We also reached Cape Ikhny - the southern tip of Africa, separating the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

Karina Nazarevyan On February 7, 2017, Hans Ratering died - a man who brightly, stubbornly and quite successfully fought with false ideas about the situation in the world with the help of statistics. To captivate the graphs of the inveterate humanities, you need not just oratory talent, but something much more - love for the people who describe these schedules.

On February 16, 2017, one of the brightest and most remarkable representatives of the Moscow mathematical school, my teacher Yuri Ivanovich Manin, turned 80 years old. At one of his previous anniversaries, his teacher I. R. Shafarevich began his speech with approximately the following words: “1937 is an important year in the history of our country, this year Yu. I. Manin was born. Each of us remembers 1953 even more; this year Yu. I.

In January 2017, the Scientific and Popular JVANTICA ( Kvantik.com ) celebrated his fifth anniversary. We publish comments of authors, artists and those who help this wonderful project. Video film "How did the quantik begin?" "Optimism Center" Natalia Demina They say that other people's children grow rapidly, especially if they have a warm house, caring parents and faithful friends.

On February 16, 2017, the Russian Academy of Sciences announced the winner of the Golden Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in the field of propaganda of scientific knowledge. President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov presented the award to the team of the laboratory of popularization and propaganda of mathematics [1] of the Mathematical Institute named after V.A.

A three-hobby turned to a number of scientists, both members of the Academy and those who have not yet been elected or planned to be elected, with a request to comment on the article by Alexander Fradkov. We publish the received responses. It is worth noting that several members of the Russian Academy of Sciences presented substantial comments both with support and criticism of the article, with the note “Not for Publication”. Alas!

Natalia Demina On February 13, 2017, the premiere and discussion of the film “Dissernet: the evolution of altruism” took place in the Moscow cafe “March”. The director of the film Dmitry Kovalgelsky and the founders of the project Mikhail Gelfand, Andrei Zazakin and Andrei Rostovtsev answered questions from the audience. We note right away that the film caused conflicting responses. However, his main characters rather liked him.

M. Tsfasman. Photo by N. Demina On February 16, 2017, it turned 80 to one of the most striking and wonderful representatives of the Moscow mathematical school, my teacher Yuri Ivanovich Manin. On one of his previous anniversaries, his teacher I. R. Shafarevich (1923–2017. - Ed . ) He began his speech with approximately the following words: “1937 is an important year in the history of our country, this year Yu. I. Manin was born. Each of us is remembered for 1953, this year Yu. I.

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 223 dated February 28, 2017 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room Scientist, teacher, poet Mikhail Tsfasman to the 80th anniversary of Yuri Manin - p. 3 What academy is needed in Russia in 2017? The opinions of Alexander Fradkov , Anna Dybo , Alexei Kondrashov and Konstantin Severinov - p. 4–5 Mathematical walks Yuri Apresan about the importance of the integral description of the language - p.

Dear editors ! Dear colleagues! How nice it is to live on the time between the day of the defender of the Fatherland and the International Women's Day! On February 23, women congratulate us, men, miners and defenders, and on March 8 we congratulate them, our beautiful ladies. Gifts, flowers, champagne, vodka, and this year - another four days off on our male day. What could be better? However, I can say that: if on March 8 we had four days off.

He was my north, south, My West, my east, My six -day work, My day off. Wisten Hugh Oden Rebekah Frumkin At the Christmas of 2016, I received a truly royal gift - Tom correspondence of composer Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) with his friend, singer Peter Pierce (1910–1986). The book was published under the title of “My Belved man” and includes all the surviving Britten correspondence with the pier (375 letters, 1937–1976), as well as an extensive reference material.

Internet research, paradoxically, began before the World Wide Web and will likely outlive it. This interdisciplinary field of knowledge grew organically from areas exploring the relationship between man/society and technology. Now its subject is studied in a very eclectic way: biologists, sociologists, and philosophers are involved in this. Is there a need for a separate approach that Internet researchers are proposing?