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What's happening in the mathematical sciences
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American Mathematical Society
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©1993
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English
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v. 1. Equations come to life in mathematical biology
New computer insights from "transparent" proofs
You can't always hear the shape of a drum
Environmentally sound mathematics
Disproving the obvious in higher dimensions
Collaboration closes in on closed geodesics
Crystal clear computations
Camp geometry
Number theorists uncover a slew of prime imposters
Map-coloring theorists look at new worlds.
v. 2. "A truly remarkable proof"
From knot to unknot
New wave mathematics
Mathematical insights for medical imaging
Parlez-vous wavelets?
Random algorithms leave little to chance
Soap solution
Straightening out nonlinear codes
Quite easily done
(Vector) field of dreams.
v. 3. Fermat's Theorem
at last!
A tale of two theories
Computer science discovers DNA
Divide and conquer
The gentle art of control
Computational fluid dynamics
verging on turbulence
Cellular automata offer new outlook on life, the universe, and everything
Are group theorists simpleminded?
The secret life of large numbers
In math we trust.
v. 4. A blue-letter day for computer chess
A prime case of chaos
Proof by example : a mathematician's mathematician
Computers take algebraic geometry back to its roots
As easy as EQP
Beetlemania : Chaos in ecology
From wired to weird
Tales from the cryptosystem
But is it math?
Mathematical discovery (by Henri Poincaré).
v. 5. New heights for number theory
A mathematical twist to protein folding
Nothing to sphere but sphere itself
Finite math
The mathematics of traffic jams
Rewriting history
It's a small, big, small, big world
A celestial Pas de Trois
Think and grow rich
Ising on the cake.
v. 6. First of seven millennium problems nears completion
Classifying hyperbolic manifolds
all's well that ends well
Digits of Pi
Combinatoricists solve a Venn-erable problem
New insights into prime numbers
From Rubik's cube to quadratic number fields ... and beyond
Vortices in the Navier-Stokes equation
Fluid dynamics explains mysteries of insect motion
Brownian motion, phase transitions, and conformal maps
Smooth(ed) moves.
v. 7. A new twist in knot theory
Error-term roulette and the Sat-Tate conjecture
The fifty-one percent solution
Dominos, anyone?
Not seeing is believing
Getting with the (Mori) program
The book that time couldn't erase
Charting a 248-dimensional world
Compressed sensing makes every pixel count.
v. 8. Accounting for taste
A brave new symplectic world
Mathematics and the financial crisis
The ultimate billiard shot
SimPatient
Instant randomness
IN search of quantum chaos
3-D surprises
-As one heroic age ends, a new one begins.
v. 9. Massive breakthrough
Tubing through hyperspace
Tsunamis: learning from math, learning from the past
Today's forecast: ten percent chance of burglary
Topologists cross four off "bucket list"
Mathematicians do the twist
The right epidemic at the right time
Thinking topically
Thinking tropically.
v. 10. Origami: unfolding the future
Prime clusters and gaps: out-experting the experts
The truth shall set your fee
Climate past, present, and future
Following in Sherlock Holmes' bike tracks
Quod erat demonstrandum
The Kadison-Singer problem: a fine balance
A pentagonal search pays off
The brave new world of sports analytics.
v. 11 Gerrymandering: mathematics on trial - The calculus of calories - When black holes collide - The shape of data - The 'set' game has met its match - The mathematics of commuting - Expanding horizons - Quantum computers and golden gates - Needles in an infinite haystack
v. 12. Fifty ways to beat a virus (part 1)
Fifty ways to beat a virus (part 2)
Fifty ways to beat a virus (part 3)
Descartes' homework
Square pegs and squiggly holes
Dancing on the edge of impossible
A climate for math
Much ado about zero.
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