Miscellaneous

Manneken Pisthagoras

Arriving as a PostDoc in Brussels at the end of 2017 I immediately became a huge fan of its symbol: The 61cm tall peing metal boy known as Manneken Pis. What is less known, is that he regularly wears different dresses of which the 1000th was gifted to him in May 2018. Nevertheless, our research uncovered that there was not one costume devoted to mathematics!

After contacting the city of Brussels, the beutiful work of our designer Julie de Kezel and several delays we were finally able to inagurate Manneken Pisthagoras in Septmeber 2021. A very proud moment.

P.S.: Please check, if your country is already represented in a Manneken Pis costume here. If not write to your ambassador in Belgium or to your head of state.

Reinhold Baer Prize

Together with Florian Eisele we received the Reinhold Baer Prize 2020 for our solution of the Zassenhaus Conjecture.