ERCIM News 73
April 2008
Special theme Maths for Everyday Life
Guest editors Jouko Väänänen (University of Amsterdam and University of Helsinki) and Ulrich Trottenberg (Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI)
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by Marja Makarow, Chief Executive, European Science Foundation
The developed world is full of modern technology that we take for granted. Mobile phones, internet, credit cards and CD and DVD discs are only a few examples of innovations that have revolutionized everyday life in the past thirty years. Common to all these is that their functioning depends heavily on mathematics. Another thing to note is that in all these cases, the mathematics was not invented for the sake of the technological innovations - it had already been developed as pure mathematics and lay ready to be applied when the time was ripe.