Author Archives: Edward Dunne

About Edward Dunne

I am the Executive Editor of Mathematical Reviews. Previously, I was an editor for the AMS Book Program for 17 years. Before working for the AMS, I had an academic career working at Rice University, Oxford University, and Oklahoma State University. In 1990-91, I worked for Springer-Verlag in Heidelberg. My Ph.D. is from Harvard. I received a world-class liberal arts education as an undergraduate at Santa Clara University.

Metadata

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Edward Dunne

MathSciNet is full of metadata.  We create our own metadata.  We receive metadata from many of the publishers of the journals we cover.  So what are metadata?  (Or what is metadata?)  The simplest explanation of metadata is that they are a type of … Continue reading →

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An exceptional review about inner model theory

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Today I’m making two blog posts about exceptional reviews: one review of a book and one of a paper.  This post is about Grigor Sargsyan‘s exceptional review of a paper:  John Steel‘s chapter, An outline of inner model theory, in the … Continue reading →

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An exceptional review about expansion in groups

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Today I’m making two blog posts about exceptional reviews: one review of a book and one of a paper. This post is about Harald Helfgott‘s review of Terry Tao‘s book, Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type, published by the … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Borwein

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Jonathan Borwein passed away on August 1st.  He was a prolific mathematician, with 427 publications as of this writing.  He was also quite broad, publishing in number theory, operations research, calculus of variations, and many other subjects.  Many people knew … Continue reading →

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MSC2020 – Mathematics Subject Classification update

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Edward Dunne

MSC2020 Announcement of the plan to revise the Mathematics Subject Classification Mathematical Reviews (MR) and zbMATH cooperate in maintaining the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC), which is used by these reviewing services, publishers, and others to categorize items in the mathematical … Continue reading →

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Mathematics Genealogy Project at 200K

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Edward Dunne

The Mathematics Genealogy Project hit the 200,000th entry in their collection of data on PhDs in mathematics.  Congratulations!  What started out as an ambitious, but small project by Harry Coonce has really thrived.  It is a project of the Mathematics Department … Continue reading →

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An exceptional review of a paper by Bhatt and Scholze on étale topology

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Another great review.  Here Pieter Belmans reviews a paper by Bhatt and Scholze on étale topology.  Before describing the authors’ work, Belmans tells us where étale topology comes from and why some news ideas might be necessary.  He then gives a quick description … Continue reading →

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Update Your Author Profile and receive a free AMS eBook

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Authors may update their own author profiles with the native script version of their name, a personal photo, personal email, and URL. For a limited time, authors who update their profiles will receive a free AMS eBook. Complete details will … Continue reading →

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An exceptional review of Tensor Categories

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Edward Dunne

I have fallen behind in my posts about exceptional reviews in MathSciNet.  Let’s try to catch up with an excellent review of the book Tensor Categories by Pavel Etingof, Shlomo Gelaki, Dmitri Nikshych, and Victor Ostrik.  The review is written by … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Otto Neugebauer

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Without Otto Neugebauer, there would be no MathSciNet.  He was the founder of both Zentralblatt für Mathematik (1931) and Mathematical Reviews (1940).   Neugebauer lived an extraordinary life during extraordinary times.  He knew and worked with some of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century.  Neugebauer … Continue reading →

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