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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS
Ground Control to Niels Bohr: Exploring Outer Space with Atomic Physics
Mason A. Porter and Predrag Cvitanovic
The motion of bodies in space--such as comets, asteroids, and spacecraft--follow chaotic trajectories, as do excited electrons. The authors discuss how the mathematical connections between these different scale, but otherwise related, nonlinear dynamical systems are helping astrophysics and chemistry.
Interview with Heisuke Hironaka
Allyn Jackson
The Notices talks to the distinguished Japanese mathematician about his life and work.