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.

Mathematical Moments

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Edward Dunne

The AMS Public Awareness office has a wonderful series of short bursts of mathematics, which are available as posters titled “Mathematical Moments“.  Mike Breen comes up with the topics and writes the texts for the posters.  He also has a knack … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Claude Shannon

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Claude Shannon is famous among mathematicians and computer scientists for his remarkable work, particularly in the realm of  information theory.  Of particular importance is Shannon’s notion of information entropy, often referred to now as “Shannon entropy”.  He launched the theory … Continue reading →

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MathOverflow and MathSciNet

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Earlier, I posted about adding MR links to Wikipedia pages.  The point of that post was that it was fairly simple to add a link to MathSciNet while editing a Wikipedia page.  In March 2014, Scott Morrison, a MathOverflow user (and … Continue reading →

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Hilary Putnam, reviewer

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Hilary Putnam has died.  There is a notice on the AMS website and an obituary in the New York Times.  Wikipedia has a long entry for Putnam. He was widely known as a philosopher, but he was also an active mathematician.  He was … Continue reading →

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Keep Good Company

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Over the course of Mathematical Reviews’ 75-year history, there have been many famous researchers who were also active reviewers.  As pointed out by Norman Richert in his article Mathematical Reviews Celebrates 75 Years, the first issue of Mathematical Reviews (in January … Continue reading →

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Report from the Joint Meeting in Seattle

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Edward Dunne

The Joint Mathematics Meetings are over.  There were lots of good talks.  Lots of good books.  Lots of good mathematical art.  Overall, there were lots of good things.  The AMS has posts about the meetings on the AMS Facebook page. … Continue reading →

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Reviewers are getting a raise

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Edward Dunne

As of January 18, 2016, reviewers will receive 12 AMS Points for each review they submit that is published in MathSciNet.  That’s a 50% raise!  Mathematical Reviews very much appreciates the efforts of our reviewers. We feel quite strongly that good … Continue reading →

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Personalizing your author profile: update

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Edward Dunne

Earlier, I wrote a post about updating your Author Profile Page on MathSciNet.  In his most recent newsletter, Donald Knuth makes a nice mention of the profile page, in particular to the full-name and native script feature.  For those of you … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Reviews at JMM in Seattle

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Edward Dunne

The Joint Mathematics Meetings are being held January 6-9, 2016 in Seattle.   There is always a lot going on at the meetings:  invited lectures, special sessions, editorial meetings, exhibits, and the chance to connect with old friends.  Mathematical Reviews … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Edward Dunne

Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 (according to the Julian Calendar in use in Great Britain at the time; in the Gregorian Calendar now used, that would be January 4, 1643).  When I lived in the UK in … Continue reading →

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