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Book Publishing with the AMS and MAA
Have you ever considered publishing a book with the AMS/MAA? New authors often have questions about the publishing process, and about the kind of experience they should expect when publishing with a scholarly society. To help answer those questions, AMS … Continue reading
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Richard K. Guy and The Unity of Combinatorics —Stephen Kennedy
This tribute by Stephen Kennedy (Carleton College), AMS/MAA Press Acquisitions, originally appeared in the most recent issue of MAA Focus and is shared with permission. The news of Richard Guy’s passing was a blow. Not only because he was a … Continue reading
Copyright, Creative Commons, and Confusion
This post by Robert Harington originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen blog; access the original post here. Robert Harington is Associate Executive Director, Publishing at the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Robert has the overall responsibility for publishing at the AMS, … Continue reading
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Author Interview: John Erdman
John Erdman is an Emeritus Associate Professor of Mathematics at Portland State University. Over several decades, he has devoted himself to developing problems based courses, and one outcome is the recently published book: A Problems Based Course in Advanced Calculus. … Continue reading
Textbooks for Problems Based Teaching
The traditional approach to teaching rigorous, proof-based mathematics is to provide students with models of excellent mathematical exposition and let students learn by emulation. Typically students will first absorb by reading the textbook and listening to lectures, and then they … Continue reading
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Author Interview: Marty Weissman
Martin H. Weissman, Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Santa Cruz, has recently published a book with the AMS called An Illustrated Theory of Numbers. How does one illustrate number theory? Weissman does it in a visually appealing … Continue reading
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Libraries and the art of browsing
Those of you over a certain age may remember when searching for math resources meant going to the library and perusing the subject catalog, spending time in shelving sections devoted to a topic, or leafing through heavy volumes of math … Continue reading
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Author Interview: John Roe
John Roe studied with Michael Atiyah at Oxford, and his research has focused on the interaction of index theory and large scale or “coarse” geometry. After teaching at Oxford for twelve years he became Professor of Mathematics at Penn State in 1998. … Continue reading
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Author Interview: Jennifer Schultens
Jennifer Schultens is Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Davis. Her book Introduction to 3-Manifolds guides beginning graduate students through the foundations of low-dimensional topology to specialized topics such as triangulations of 3-manifolds, normal surface theory and Heegaard splittings. … Continue reading
Open Math Notes: Free as in beer.
Recently, the phrase “free as in beer vs. free as in speech” caught my attention. It was the first I had heard of this way of distinguishing two English meanings of free, and how it particularly applies to what is … Continue reading
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