From the Editor
This season of the Perseid meteor shower August 12 and the third sighting in June make our cover feature on the discovery of gravitational waves stirring and profound. Later in the issue, James Tanton tells you how to prepare for Global Math Week, coming in October. Enjoy the summer while you can.—Frank Morgan, Editor-in-Chief
Feature Articles
A Two-Part Feature: The Mathematics of Gravitational Waves
Introduction by Christina Sormani
Part One: How the Green Light was Given for Gravitational Wave Search
by C. Denson Hill and and Paweł Nurowski
Part Two: Gravitational Waves and Their Mathematics
by Lydia Bieri, David Garfinkle, and and Nicolás Yunes
Communications
Ellenberg in Movie Gifted
Michèle Audin, Mathematician and Writer
Interviewed Allyn Jackson
The ”Wide Influence” of Leonard Eugene Dickson
Della Dumbaugh and Amy Shell-Gellasch
The Global Math Project: Uplifting Mathematics for All
James Tanton and Brianna Donaldson
The Travel Ban: Affected Mathematicians Tell Their Stories
Alexander Diaz-Lopez, Allyn Jackson and Stephen Kennedy
From the AMS Secretary
Graduate Students
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Volume 64 · Issue 07
Review of Noncommutative Geometry by Alain Connes
This article discusses Alain Connes's visionary 1994 book Noncommutative Geometry. Appearing in the same issue "Noncommutative Geometry" (www.ams.org/notices/19970/lesniewski.pdf) by Andrew Lesniewski emphasizes the physics aspects of the subject.
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