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.

Mathematics for Democracy

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Edward Dunne

There is mathematics in the New York Times today (December 6, 2015).  Not research-level mathematics, but math nonetheless.  Specifically, there is an article about using two simple statistical tests as indicators of gerrymandered voting districts.  By themselves, the tests don’t … Continue reading →

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General Relativity at 100

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Edward Dunne

On November 25, 1915, Einstein‘s paper on general relativity, Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation (The Field Equations of Gravity), was published in the Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Several scans of the original are available online, with this being a relatively clear and … Continue reading →

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Hello, Adele

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Edward Dunne

There has been a lot of news lately about Adele, which I found very exciting because adeles are important in mathematics.  In number theory, it is helpful to complete the rational numbers (in the sense of topology), since then you … Continue reading →

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Job: Associate Editor at Mathematical Reviews

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Edward Dunne

Earlier, I posted an announcement that Mathematical Reviews is looking to hire a new Associate Editor to start in spring or summer 2016.  This is the re-post I promised.  And now everyone knows that this is an opportunity to work in a … Continue reading →

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Personalizing your author profile

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Edward Dunne

A key feature of Mathematical Reviews and MathSciNet is our work to identify authors.  (See the earlier post “Who wrote that?”.)  For each author in the database, we create an Author Profile Page.  But did you know you can personalize … Continue reading →

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Ales Waive Math Metric

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Edward Dunne

For the last 30 of its 75 years, the offices of Mathematical Reviews, housing roughly 78 staff members, have been in a red-brick building at 416 Fourth Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This building sits at the edge of downtown … Continue reading →

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Halloween

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Edward Dunne

A playful collection of reviews for Halloween Mathematicians have a special way with language.  For us a manifold is not going to be found attached to the engine of your car.  You would never use a mathematical pole to propel your … Continue reading →

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John Wehausen and his in-depth look at surface waves

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Edward Dunne

 John V. Wehausen was the fifth Executive Editor at Mathematical Reviews, from 1950 to 1956.  Wehausen has connections to the University of Michigan (BS and PhD) and to Brown (instructor), both of which institutions were hosts to Mathematical Reviews at one time or another. … Continue reading →

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John Urschel, a well-known mathematician you might not have heard of

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Edward Dunne

A recent paper by John Urschel  just came across my desk.  Urschel has three papers in MathSciNet.  The latest is “A cascadic multigrid algorithm for computing the Fiedler vector of graph Laplacians” in the Journal of Computational Mathematics.  Like many of the authors … Continue reading →

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Geometry and Computational Complexity Theory

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Edward Dunne

Mathematics flourishes when ideas from one area of mathematics can be used in another area.  For a long time (certainly since Descartes), algebra has been a great asset to geometry.  In return, geometry has been helpful to algebra, for instance … Continue reading →

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