Mr. András Király, Ambassador of Hungary to the Republic of South-Africa presented Gömböc 1910 to Professor Keshlan Govinder, Dean and Head of School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. The ceremony was also attended by dr, László Tóth, honorary consul of Hungary at Durban and Professor Jonathan Blackledge, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research. Professor Blacklegde greeted Ambassador Király…
BIBUS METALS, one of the best established European titanium distributors with world-wide network chose a very special retirement gift for its CEO, Mr. Martin Vonmoos. The 40 years old, Zürich-based company ordered Gömböc 2015 to be manufactured from grade 2, pure titanium, offering a formidable manufacturing challenge. After aluminium-alloy, clear and coloured plexiglass, copper, bronze, stainless steel and 99.99%…
The Department of Mathematics of Pennsylvania State University, one of the leading state universities of the United States put Gömböc 1855, carrying the year of foundation of the University, on permanent public display. Penn State is competing with the greatest private universities and ranks in the top 50-100 worldwide.
The mathematical institute in Leipzig, at one of the world’s oldest universities, has excellent traditions. Among other notable mathematicians, Felix Klein taught here between 1880-1886 and also founded the famous mathematical collection. The newest addition to the collection is Gömböc 1409, carrying the year of foundation of the University. The mathematical institute put Gömböc 1409 on exhibit in the foyer of the…
The Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) created the Stephen Smale prize whose objective is to recognize the work of one or two young mathematicians in the areas at the heart of the Society’s interest and to help to promote their integration among the leaders of the scientific community. The first Stephen Smale Prize was awarded at the Budapest…
The Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford moved to a new building in 2013. The building was named after the celebrated number theorist Sir Andrew Wiles (who is well known, among others, for having proven the Fermat conjecture). Professor Wiles gave a talk at the opening ceremony on the Challenges of Number Theory. The new building, designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, received several mathematical decorations, for…
Maplesoft, the leading provider of high-performance mathematical software tools celebrated recently the 25th anniversary of its foundation. In 2006 Maple played an important role in the proof for the the existence of the Gömböc, the paper cites Maple several times. In commemoration of the company’s roots in the University of Waterloo, Maplesoft’s CEO Jim Cooper presented the University with a…
One of the world’s foremost mathematical collections at the Mathematical Institute of the Georg August University of Göttingen put Gömböc 1737 (carrying the year of foundation of the University) on permanent exhibit. The collection was used and enriched (among others) by Alfred Clebsh, David Hilbert, Felix Klein and Arthur Schoenflies and the latest item was added in 1930. Gömböc 1737 is item #941 of the collection, on exhibit in…
The Bolyai Memorial Museum located at the Teleki-Bolyai Library in Tirgu Mures (Marosvásárhely) decided to put Gömböc 1823 on permanent exhibit on the 189th anniversary of the famous Temesvár Letter, where János Bolyai announces the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry: “I created a new, different world out of nothing” – he wrote to his father Farkas Bolyai. The exhibit was generously supported by Mr Otto Albrecht, investor…
British author, actor, playwright and polymath Stephen Fry picked a particularly interesting serial number for his personal Gömböc: 1729 is not only the smallest integer which can be constructed as the sum of cubes of two integers in more than one way, this property was pointed out by the mathemtical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan to G.H. Hardy when the latter visited him while Ramanujan was…
