Author Archives: Kareem Carr

Democratic, Free-market Mathematics

By Kareem Carr Some of you may have already heard about MathOverflow, but for those of you who haven’t, let me tell you what you’ve be missing.

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U.S. News Rankings

By Kareem Carr For what it’s worth, the 2010 U.S. News rankings for graduate schools in mathematics are out.

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Open Thread

By Kareem Carr This is your chance to have your say.  If you have a question, a general comment or something you would like to us write about, let us know.

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First Clay Mathematics Institute Millenium Prize Awarded

By Kareem Carr Dr. Grigoriy Perelman has received the first Millennium Prize for his work resolving the Poincaré conjecture. Congratulations to Dr. Perelman. A biography of Dr. Perelman, Perfect Rigor by Masha Gessen, was recently reviewed by the Graduate Student … Continue reading

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AMS Council Meeting – Part 3

By Kareem Carr “It was such a shock to me to see that a committee of men could present a whole lot of ideas, each one thinking of a new facet, while remembering what the other fella said, so that, … Continue reading

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