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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS

Demotion of Mathematics at Rochester Meets Groundswell of Protest

Arthur Jaffe, Salah Baouendi, and Joseph Lipman

The cuts in the mathematics department at Rochester sounded alarm bells throughout the mathematical community and beyond. Quoting from the many letters of protest sent to the Rochester administration, this article discusses the reaction to the cuts.

Downsizing at Rochester

Allyn Jackson

A major restructuring plan at the University of Rochester has called for the elimination of its graduate program in mathematics and a sizeable reduction in mathematics faculty. This article examines what happened at Rochester and why.

How We Got Where We Are

Karen Parshall

The number of recent centennial celebrations indicates great happenings at the end of the last century. The forces leading to these events and the birth of the modern mathematical community are described in this article.