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Mathematical Reviews / MathSciNet at virtual JMM

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Edward Dunne

At the virtual JMM2021, there will be four demonstrations of how to use MathSciNet. They are themed:

Date / Time	Day	Topic	Presenter
Jan 6, 12:00 MST / 2:00 EST	Wednesday	MathSciNet for undergraduate and graduate students	Ursula Whitcher
Jan 7, 12:00 MST / 2:00 EST	Thursday	MathSciNet for early career mathematicians	Andrés Caicedo
Jan 8, 12:00 MST / 2:00 EST	Friday	MathSciNet for mid-career mathematicians: editing, refereeing, letters	Edward Dunne
Jan 9, 12:00 MST / 2:00 EST	Saturday	MathSciNet for early career mathematicians	Michael Jones

There is more information about each demo at the virtual booth for Mathematical Reviews.

Note: You need to register for the JMM in order to participate in the demos. There was no special rate for early registration, so don’t fret if you haven’t registered already – you will get the same rate as if you had registered on Day One!

I hope to see you at one of the demonstrations!

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Don’t Count on It – column in the Notices of the AMS

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Edward Dunne

My latest column has appeared in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. The column looks at correlations between citations counts and other forms of recognition, such as winning awards. The title rather gives a lot away: Don’t Count on It.

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Nobel Prize in Economics to Milgrom and Wilson

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Edward Dunne

Illustration of Milgrom and Wilson from the Nobel Prize site

Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have been named as the winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 (also known as the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics). While the prize is for Economics, they work in the area of auction theory, which is a blend of economics, computer science, and mathematics. Indeed, Milgrom was an undergraduate mathematics major at the University of Michigan.

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Otto Neugebauer, redux

Posted on September 28, 2020 by Edward Dunne

Last May, I wrote a piece about Otto Neugebauer and the founding of Mathematical Reviews. I find Neugebauer’s story compelling. A revised version of that blog post was published in the October 2020 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Since I had the benefit of an editor, this version is undoubtedly better. It is available here.

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MathSciNet Webinar Videos

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Edward Dunne

Recently, Michael Jones, the Managing Editor at Mathematical Reviews, gave a webinar about using MathSciNet. The full-length video (54 minutes) is available from YouTube here. There are also three excerpts available: How to Conduct an Author Search (10 minutes), How to Conduct a Journal Search (8 minutes), and Additional Resources in MathSciNet (2 minutes 30 seconds). Check out one or all of them!

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Martin Hairer wins Breakthrough Prize

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Edward Dunne

Martin Hairer has won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. The announcement is here. The official citation is: For transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis, particularly the theory of regularity structures in stochastic partial differential equations. His long paper in Inventiones Mathematicae is a remarkable and thorough exposition of his work on stochastic PDEs, which has applications in many areas of both pure and applied mathematics. Our review of this work is at the end of this post. Continue reading →

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Harvard hires three new mathematics professors

Posted on August 30, 2020 by Edward Dunne

A crimson H Harvard has hired three new professors in the Mathematics Department: Laura DeMarco, Mihnea Popa, and Melanie Matchett Wood. Their appointments began in July. There are now three women who are tenured, full professors in the department. Lauren Williams joined the department in 2018. There is an announcement of the recent three appointments in the Harvard Gazette. The Gazette’s announcement about Williams is here.

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Roger Penrose on Numberphile

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Edward Dunne

UPDATE [6 October 2020]: Roger Penrose is one of the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Congratulations!

Numberphile has posted an audio interview with Roger Penrose on their YouTube channel Numberphile2. You can also access it as audio-only from their website. Continue reading →

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The Mathematics Genealogy Project moves to the cloud

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Edward Dunne

The Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP) has a new home on the internet: http://mathgenealogy.org/. It is all the same content, and still brought to you by the NDSU Department of Mathematics, with support from the American Mathematical Society. Now, however, the website and the data are on cloud servers, for increased stability. Check it out! Continue reading →

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Happy 121st Birthday, Otto Neugebauer

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Edward Dunne

Today is Otto Neugebauer’s birthday (May 26, 1899 — February 19, 1990). Normally, Mathematical Reviews would have a gathering in our kitchen with a cake. And I would remind people that Neugebauer left Europe, eventually ending up in Providence, Rhode Island, because he opposed the demands being put on Zentralblatt by the Nazis with regards to Jewish editors and reviewers, and attempts to maintain a German identity for the journal. But we are working remotely now, so I wrote a long message to the staff at Mathematical Reviews instead, reminding them that our origin story is one of a principled person acting to maintain those values. Continue reading →