From the Editor
Most fitting celebrations of April as Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month are the AMS prize announcements, the Spring Sectional Meetings (sampled herein for all), and the Association for Women in Mathematics 2017 Research Symposium (also sampled herein). After an article tracing the history of Mathematics Awareness Month back to World War II, we have a report from IMAGINARY on how to share mathematics with the world, followed by two opinion pieces: one on the National Math Festival and the public's understanding of math, and the other on increasing student awareness of the value of statistical literacy and potential careers in statistics. The BackPage announces the January caption contest winner and the new April contest. Celebrate with us, and add your own contributions to the commentary on the Notices webpage. —Frank Morgan, Editor-in-Chief
Feature Articles
2017 AWM Lecture Sampler
Kristin Lauter, Ami Radunskaya, Ruth Charney, and Svitlana Mayboroda
A New Golden Age of Minimal Surfaces
Joaquín Pérez
AMS Spring Sectional Sampler
Andrew Raich, Daniel Rogalski, Michael Hitrik, and Sarah C. Koch
Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
Michael J. Barany, Andreas Daniel Matt, David Eisenbud, Kirsten Bohl, and Ronald L. Wasserstein
Communications
IMAGINARY—a How-to Guide for Math Exhibitions
Andreas Daniel Matt
Strengthening Doctoral Programs in Mathematics Education: A Continuous Process
Robert Reys and Barbara Reys
The World War II Origins of Mathematics Awareness
Michael J. Barany
From the AMS Secretary
- 2017 Bocher Memorial Prize
- 2017 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student
- 2017 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory
- 2017 Joseph L. Doob Prize
- 2017 Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics
- 2017 Leroy P. Steele Prizes
- 2017 Levi L. Conant Prize
- 2017 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize
- A New Opportunity from the AMS: Bertrand Russell Award
- A New Opportunity from the AMS: Ulf Grenander Prize
- Call for 2018 Nominations : Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize; Award for Distinguished Public Service; Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory; Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra; George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics; Levi L. Conant Prize
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Volume 64 · Issue 04
An Interview with Vladimir Arnold, by S. H. Lui
In this wide-ranging interview, legendary mathematician V. I. Arnold (1937-2010) discusses his early mathematical training, mathematics in the Soviet Union, and different cultures in mathematics. Famous for his strong opinions, Arnold voices many of them here, in his characteristically provocative style.
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