Notices of the American Mathematical Society
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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS
Reforming Scholarly Publishing in the Sciences: A Librarian Perspective
Joseph J. Branin and Mary Case
Two library administrators detail the spiraling cost of publishing and its consequences, attributing the problem in part to the "commercialization of scholarship".
Representations of Finite Groups: A Hundred Years, Part II
T. Y. Lam
In this second part of a two-part series about group representations and finite groups, the author discusses William Burnside, the Burnside problems, and their influence on contemporary mathematics.
The State of Mathematics Education: Building a Strong Foundation for the 21st Century
Richard W. Riley
In this speech presented at the Baltimore meetings in January 1998, U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley expressed deep concerns about the divisiveness of the debate over mathematics education reform.