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AMS Scand 2000

	Excursions
	and
	Tourist Information

Egeskov Castle (Postconference excursion, Friday afternoon)

is the best preserved Renaissance moat castle throughout all of Europe, completed by Frands Brockenhuus in 1554 for defence purposes. The large banquet hall and many other rooms are open to the public as are also the extensive gardens (including a geometrically very interesting sundial, and a maze, both designed by the Danish poet/mathematician Piet Hein) and large collections of antique cars, motor bikes and carriages.

The Hans Christian Andersen Museum (excursion, Tuesday night)
contains an extensive collection of Andersen memorabilia including his paper cuttings; editions of his fairy tales in more than 140 different languages; illustrations for the tales in paintings and prints by world renowned artists; and a rope that he carried with him on his travels - - to escape from his hotel room in case of fire.

In spite of this fear of hotel fires, Hans Christian Andersen travelled widely, and he foresaw the kind of tourist travel in which you will probably also indulge before or after the AMS Scand 2000. In fact, here are the opening and closing lines from one of his less well known fairy tales. It was written in 1853, so the timing is off by a factor of almost ten, but except for that he got everything right:

It's a fact - - a thousand years from now people will cross the ocean on wings of steam! America's young settlers will visit old Europe. They will come over to see our monuments and our vanishing cities, just as we in our days go touring among the crumbling splendours of Southern Asia. A thousand years from now, they will come.

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``There is a lot to look at in Europe,'' says one young American, ``and we have done it all in a week. Yes, it's quite possible, as the great traveller (he mentions a name of that era) has shown in his famous book How to see Europe in a week.''

Another (little known?) fact: There is an HCA poem presenting a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. At conference headquarters we are preparing a translation into English to be presented at the conference. Added January 11, 2000: This is quite difficult, so let us make it a competition.

HCA center (research unit at the university).
HCA Fact Sheet (from the Danish Foreign Department)

Reception (Tuesday night)
After the visit to the Hans ChristianAndersen Museum, the city of Odense hosts a reception (snacks and drinks) in the nearby Town Hall.

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