Institute Mittag-Leffler

I'm spending most of September and October at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, located on the northern edge of Stockholm. The institute was founded by Gosta Mittag-Leffler, a Swedish mathematician who was a major force in the beginnings of Stockholm University, founded Acta Mathematica (one of the more prestigious journals), and contributed to the development of European mathematics in the late 19th and early 20th century. He left his estate to the Swedish Academy for the purpose of forming an institute, where groups of mathematicians can gather in order to work without distractions.

Here are some pictures of the institute. First the lobby

Each afternoon, we gather for tea in the "flower room":


On Tuesdays and Thursdays we have seminars in what was the dining room:


One of the very nice things about the institute is the large collection of old mathematics journals and books, which are housed in the library rooms. Here is the main library room:


Books are stored in every room in the house. A round tower holds all sorts of old collections of papers from every great name in European math history.