Supporting the contest

Prof. Dr. Philippe Cara from Brussels VUB university has been supportive from the start and offered help through the evaluation stages of applications and submissions. He arranged for the publication of the contest in the BMS's Newsletter, see below. He also kindly invited me this year (2025-) at his first course on complex analysis at VUB university, announcing the contest and letting me give a brief intro on the graphing methods that form the subject of it.

Mgr. Michal Zamboj from Prague Charles University has published this paper where I found a 'true 4D' graph of a complex function, with the same or similar methods that I use and that form the thema of this contest: look for fig. 4, showing the 4 axes involved. He and a collegue also published this video where the same figure is shown rotating.
He kindly replied to my mail, giving to the contest his moral support and offering help.
Note: the link on the left seems out of use. This link works.

This is issue #154 of the Newsletter of the Belgian Mathematical Society, which contains the announcement of the contest, taken care of by Prof. Cara as I mentioned before. See at p 15 under § 6.2.

Hereby I for myself wish to pay homage to Prof. Em. Thomas Banchoff of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, US. He is a pioneer researcher on the geometrical meaning and rendering of complex functions.

Back in the late 70ies of last century I was given his reference by my then prof of analysis. When I contacted prof. Banchoff finally in 2016, we had a brief e-mail exchange where he was kindly encouraging my approach at complex function graphs (I had to discover Graphing Calculator yet!).

That's why I am including Brown University together with EU universities in the scope of this contest.