Notices of the American Mathematical Society
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Features
High-quality articles on mathematical research.
August 2013
- Getting Evidence-Based Teaching Practices into Mathematics Departments: Blueprint or Fantasy?
Robert Reys - Is Mathematical History Written by the Victors?
Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszyk, Robert Ely, Valérie Henry, Vladimir Kanovei, Karin U. Katz, Mikhail G. Katz, Semen S. Kutateladze, Thomas McGaffey, David M. Schaps, David Sherry, Steven Shnider - Meijer G-Functions: A Gentle Introduction
Richard Beals and Jacek Szmigielski - The Computation of Previously Inaccessible Digits of $pi^2$ and Catalan's Constant
David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, Andrew Mattingly, Glenn Wightwick
June/July 2013
- Can the Eureqa Symbolic Regression Program, Computer Algebra, and Numerical Analysis Help Each Other?
David R. Stoutemyer - E. T. Bell and Mathematics at Caltech between the Wars
Judith R. Goodstein and Donald Babbitt - Rubik's for Cryptographers
Christophe Petit and Jean-Jacques Quisquater
May 2013
- Coble and Eisenhart: Two Gettysburgians Who Led Mathematics
Darren B. Glass - Interview with John Horton Conway
Dierk Schleicher - The Geodesic Spring on the Euclidean Sphere with Parallel-Transport-Based Damping
Jason M. Osborne and Gregory P. Hicks
April 2013
- Errors and Corrections in Mathematics Literature
Joseph F. Grcar - Mathematical Methods in the Study of Historical Chronology
Florin Diacu
March 2013
- A Revolutionary Material
Charles Radin - Cancer Modeling: A Personal Perspective
Rick Durrett - Remembering Walter Rudin (1921--2010)
Alexander Nagel and Edgar Lee Stout, Coordinating Editors
February 2013
- A Walk through Johnny von Neumann's Garden
Freeman Dyson - How to Calculate Proofs: Bridging the Cultural Divide
Raymond T. Boute - Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, Part II
Vladimir Retakh, Coordinating Editor - On the Measurement of Intangibles. A Principal Eigenvector Approach to Relative Measurement Derived from Paired Comparisons
Thomas L. Saaty
January 2013
- Closed Forms: What They Are and Why We Care
Jonathan M. Borwein and Richard E. Crandall - Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, Part I
Vladimir Retakh, Coordinating Editor - Srinivasa Ramanujan: Going Strong at 125, Part II
Krishnaswami Alladi, Editor - Wavelets
Demetrio Labate, Guido Weiss, and Edward Wilson
December 2012
- Leibniz's Laws of Continuity and Homogeneity
Mikhail G. Katz and David M. Sherry - Mysteries in Packing Regular Tetrahedra
Jeffrey C. Lagarias and Chuanming Zong - Srinivasa Ramanujan: Going Strong at 125, Part I
Krishnaswami Alladi, Editor
November 2012
- Adventures in Teaching: A Professor Goes to High School to Learn about Teaching Math
Darryl Yong - Archimedes, Gauss, and Stein
Jim Pitman and Nathan Ross - Forbidden Symmetries
Frank A. Farris
October 2012
- An IMMERSE-Style Course Brings a Research Experience to Students and Faculty
Ellen Veomett - Interdisciplinary Research---Mathematical Interactions Viewed from Four Portrayals
Goong Chen - The Influence of Benoît B. Mandelbrot on Mathematics
Michael F. Barnsley and Michael Frame, Editors - When Does Compromise Prevent More Pollution?
C. Clemons, J. Cossey, M. Ferrara, S. Forcey, T. Norfolk, G. Obeng, D. Ricciardi, G. Young
September 2012
- A Fresh Look at Francesco Severi
Judith Goodstein and Donald Babbitt - An Eloquent Formula for the Perimeter of an Ellipse
Semjon Adlaj - The Klein Bottle: Variations on a Theme
Gregorio Franzoni