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Author Archives: Edward Dunne
A short video about MathSciNet
There is a three-minute video about MathSciNet now available online on Vimeo. It is also available as part of a blog post from EBSCO, which mostly discusses Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month and the really neat book Living Proof: Stories … Continue reading
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John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway died on April 11 of COVID-19. He was 82 years old. In the midst of social distancing measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic, a common refrain is “life goes on”. But sometimes it doesn’t. Conway was an … Continue reading
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Some updates during the coronavirus | COVID-19 epidemic
The world is responding to the global coronavirus and COVID-19 epidemic in many ways. One of the most important is by socially distancing ourselves from one another. While this helps slow the spread of the epidemic, it also cuts … Continue reading
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Hillel Furstenberg & Grigoriĭ Margulis win Abel Prize
Hillel Furstenberg and Grigoriĭ Margulis have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Abel Prize. You can read the official announcement here. There is a news item about the prize on the AMS website. Needless to say, they have … Continue reading
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Mathematics and epidemiology
Mathematics is a useful tool in studying the growth of infections in a population, such as what occurs in epidemics. A simple model is given by a first-order differential equation, the logistic equation, $\frac{dx}{dy}=\beta x(1-x)$ which is discussed in almost any … Continue reading
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MSC2020
The editors of Mathematical Reviews and zbMATH have finished the latest revision of the Mathematics Subject Classification, MSC2020. The official announcement is published jointly in the March 2020 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society and the March … Continue reading
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Current Index to Statistics
The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is now hosted by the AMS. It is available on the MathSciNet servers from the URL mathscinet.ams.org/cis. The database is openly available using a brand new search interface.
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Emily Riehl
Emily Riehl, a mathematician at Johns Hopkins University, won a huge prize from the university recently: the $250,000 President’s Frontier Award. Riehl works in category theory related to homotopy theory, such as $(\infty,1)$-categories. Her work has roots in earlier work … Continue reading
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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg died January 26, 2020 at the age of 94. He made tremendous contributions to the field of partial differential equations and global analysis.
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Mathematical Reviews at JMM 2020 in Denver
Mathematical Reviews will be at the JMM in Denver, January 13-18, 2020. The Joint Mathematical Meetings is the largest gathering of mathematicians in the world. There are lots of great activities: invited lectures, special sessions, editorial meetings, exhibits, and the chance to … Continue reading
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