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12th Heibronn Symposium in Economics and the Social Sciences 
25-27 June 1999 
 
The twelfth Heilbronn Symposium in Economics and the Social Sciences will  
be devoted to the role of mathematics in the social sciences in general  
and economics in particular. 
 
It is the mission of the Heilbronn meetings to unearth a body of  
literature that is tied to the German language and no longer available to  
the international community of scholars. In the case of mathematical  
contributions, one should think that the language divide were of no  
particular significance. However, although mathematics is an international  
language, the mathematical contributions published in the German  
literature are not very well known with very few and notable exceptions.  
Even in the case of these exceptions, however, the extensive discussions  
of the purpose(s) and limitations of mathematical analysis necessarily  
given in verbal form are not very well understood. Hence, the focus of the  
symposion is on mathematical contributions, their identification and  
reconstruction, their criticial discussion and modern rendition and their  
analysis from the point of view of contemporary theory development. 
 
The conference will be held in Heilbronn from June 25-27, 1999. The  
conference site is the traditional Schiesshaus at less than five minutes'  
distance from the railroad station. 
On Thursday 24 June, at four o'clock, conference participants will gather  
at the big clock in front of the railroad station, for a guided tour.  
Afterwards, dinner in Hotel Goetz. 
 
There will be no registration fee, so no subsidies can be requested.  
Active participants will be our guests during the conference, depending on  
the state of the budget. 
 
Please address your inquiries to: 
 
Prof. Dr. Juergen G. Backhaus 
Maastricht University, AE 
P.O. Box 616 
6200 MD Maastricht 
The Netherlands 
tel: +31-43-3883636 
fax: +31-43-3258440 
email: [log in to unmask] 
 
 
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