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An interview with Professor Ivan Netuka, president of the Czech Science Foundation (CSF) is also featured. Professor Netuka is an internationally recognized authority in mathematical analysis. A representative of the Prague school of potential theory and author of significant publications in this field, he is also deeply interested in the history of mathematics. He was vice-president of the CSF since 2008; in October 2014, the Government of the Czech Republic appointed him President. Currently a member of the CAS Board for scientific degree DSc, he was a member of the CAS Academic Assembly. Professor Netuka is also a member of the Board of the Academy’s Institute of Mathematics.
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