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Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality

Frances Y. Kuo and Ian H. Sloan

The curse of dimensionality is the computational burden encountered when discrete integration schemes are extended to higher dimensions by products of lower dimensional methods. The authors show how this problem can be finessed by choices of integration points.
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A Different Kind of Institute: The American Institute of Mathematics

Allyn Jackson

The author reports on the history, operations, and future plans of the unique California research institute.
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About the Cover
Dirk Nuyens

Saunders Mac Lane: A Mathematical Autobiography and A3 & His Algebra: How a Boy from Chicago's West Side Became a Force in American Mathematics
A Book Review
Reviewed by Lance W. Small

Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know?
A Book Review
Reviewed by Martin Gardner

WHAT IS...a Random Matrix?
Persi Diaconis

Whither Mathematics?
E. B. Davies

The Mathematics Survey Project
Jim Pitman and David Aldous

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