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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS
Employment Experiences of 1990-1991 U.S. Institution Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences
Donald E. McClure
A two-year survey of the employment history of 365 mathematicians who received their Ph.D.s in 1990-91.
Mapping Heredity: Using Probabilistic Models and Algorithms to Map Genes and Genomes
Eric S. Lander
Genetic modifications can involve such subtle alterations as a one-letter mispelling in three billion letters. To hunt for these, geneticists narrow down the structure in a hierarchical fashion, using genetic and physical maps. The former are discussed in part one.
The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by R. Taylor and A. Wiles
Gerd Faltings
The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is complete, thanks to new directions taken by Taylor and Wiles. This article surveys the overall structure of the proof.