DOCSLIB.ORG

August 1989 Council Minutes

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
August 1989 Council Minutes AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL 06 August 1989 Abstract The Council of the American Mathematical Society met at 2:00 pm on 06 August 1989 in the Grand Ballroom of the Clarion Harvest House Hotel, Boulder, Colorado. Council members present were: Steve Armentrout, William Browder, Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Ronald Douglas, Robert Fossum, Richard Guy, Rhonda Hughes, Ro- bion Kirby, Irwin Kra, Andy Roy Magid, Albert Marden, M. Susan Montgomery, G.D. Mostow, Linda Ness, Andrew Odlyzko, Richard Palais, Franklin Peterson, Everett Pitcher, Michael Reed, Marc Rieffel, Hugo Rossi, Barry Simon, Harold Stark, William Thurston, and Carol Wood. Others attending with privileges of the floor were: Robert Bartle, William H. Jaco, Linda Keen, Jane Kister, Mary Lane, James Maxwell, Joan Wick Pelletier, Jean Taylor, Donovan Van Osdol, William Woolf, and Dan Zelinsky. as Chair of the Editorial Boards Committee. President Browder presided. 1 CONTENTS 2 Contents 1MINUTES 4 1.1 April 89 Council. ...................................... 4 1.2 ECBT Minutes. ....................................... 4 2 INFORMATION AND RECORD 4 2.1 Report from Lida Barrett, President of MAA. ...................... 4 2.2 Associate Executive Director (Fossum). ......................... 4 2.3 Individual Dues for 1990 (Fossum). ........................... 4 2.4 Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize (Fossum). ...................... 4 2.5 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship Stipend (Fossum). ................ 4 2.6 NSF Budget Letter. .................................... 5 2.7 Letter to the Council from former President Saunders Mac Lane. ........... 5 2.8 Software Rights. ...................................... 5 2.9 Soviet mathematician refugees. .............................. 5 2.10 Presidential Nominations for Election to the Nominating Committee ......... 5 2.11 Presidential Nominations for Election to the Editorial Boards Committee ...... 5 4 BOARDS AND COMMITTEES 5 4.1 Nominating Committee: .................................. 5 4.1.1 Nominations for Vice-President. ......................... 6 4.1.2 Nominations for Member-at-Large. ........................ 6 4.2 Editorial Boards Committee (EBC). ........................... 6 4.3 Editorial Boards Committee (EBC). ........................... 6 4.3.1 American Journal of Mathematics: ........................ 6 4.3.2 Bulletin: ....................................... 6 4.3.3 Colloquium Publications: .............................. 6 4.3.4 Journal of the American Mathematical Society: ................. 7 4.3.5 Mathematical Reviews: ............................... 7 4.3.6 Mathematical Surveys and Monographs: ..................... 7 4.3.7 Mathematics of Computation: ........................... 7 4.3.8 Proceedings: ..................................... 7 4.3.9 Transactions and Memoirs: ............................ 7 4.4 MAA Committee on Preparation for College Teaching (Case). ............. 8 4.5 AMS-MAA Committee on Employment and Educational Policy (CEEP) (Connors). 8 4.5.1 Report from the AMS-MAA Committee on Employment and Educational Policy. ........................................ 8 4.5.2 Recommendations from AMS-MAA Committee on Employment and Educa- tional Policy. .................................... 8 4.6 Notices Editorial Committee (NEC) (Fossum). ..................... 8 4.7 Executive Committee and Board of Trustees (ECBT) recommendations to the Council. 9 4.7.1 Collected Works Book Series (ECBT). ...................... 9 4.7.2 Public Service Awards. ............................... 9 CONTENTS 3 8 UNFINISHED BUSINESS. 10 8.1 Elections ........................................... 10 8.1.1 Nominations by petitions (Hughes). ....................... 10 8.1.2 Nominating Committee. .............................. 10 8.1.3 Mail ballots on major motions regarding the election process (Corwin). ... 11 8.1.4 Contested election for the presidency. ...................... 11 8.1.5 Election of Vice-Presidents. ............................ 11 8.1.6 Treasurer and Associate Treasurer. ........................ 12 8.1.7 Executive Committee. ............................... 12 9 NEW BUSINESS 12 9.1 Pi Mu Epsilon 75th Anniversary (Fossum). ....................... 12 9.2 Contempt of Congress Conviction of Chandler Davis (Fossum). ............ 12 9.3 Sigma Xi .......................................... 13 9.4 Chinese Students ...................................... 13 9.5 Bulletin Book Reviews: .................................. 13 A Attachments 14 A.1 Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize. ........................... 14 A.2 NSF Budget ......................................... 15 A.3 Letter to the Council from Saunders Mac Lane. ..................... 16 A.4 MAA Policy on Software Rights. ............................. 17 A.5 Letter from Paul Nevai concerning Soviet emigrants. .................. 18 A.6 Committee on Preparation for College Teaching. .................... 19 A.7 Report of the Committee on Employment and Educational Policy (Connors). .... 20 A.8 Request from CEEP that the Data Subcommittee be made self-standing (Connors). 21 A.9 Letter from Sigma Xi .................................... 22 1 MINUTES 4 1MINUTES 1.1 April 89 Council. The Minutes of the April 89 Council were distributed by mail. They were approved as distributed. 1.2 ECBT Minutes. The Minutes of the May 1989 Executive Committee and board of Trustees meeting were distributed by mail and are attached. 2 INFORMATION AND RECORD 2.1 Report from Lida Barrett, President of MAA. MAA President Lida Barrett reported to the Council on MAA activities. 2.2 Associate Executive Director (Fossum). The Board of Trustees, at its meeting in May 89, approved the recommendation by Executive Director Jaco that Donovan (Don) H. Van Osdol be appointed Associate Executive Director. An offer to Van Osdol was made and accepted. He began his official duties on 24 July 1989. 2.3 Individual Dues for 1990 (Fossum). At its meeting in May 89, the Board of Trustees approved dues for 1990 at $92 for ordinary membership at the high level. The other categories of dues are determined from this figure by established formulas. The break between the ordinary high level and the ordinary lower level was set at $43,000. 2.4 Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize (Fossum). The Association for Women in Mathematics has established an endowment to support a prize, called the Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize, to be awarded annually to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics. The Board of Trustees has made a contribution to the fund in support of this prize. See Attachment A.1. 2.5 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship Stipend (Fossum). The Executive Committee (EC) and the Board of Trustees (BT) agreed to the April 89 Council rec- ommendation that the stipend for the 1990-91 fellowships be $36,000 and that the travel allowance be $1,000. 4 BOARDS AND COMMITTEES 5 2.6 NSF Budget Letter. The January 89 Council authorized the President to write to various members of Congress sup- porting increases in federal funding for mathematics research. A copy of a typical letter is attached (see Attachment A.2). 2.7 Letter to the Council from former President Saunders Mac Lane. Former President Sanders Mac Lane has submitted the attached letter for the attention of the Council (see Attachment A.3). (Mac Lane’s letter has been referred to the AMS-MAA Committee on Education and Employment Policy (CEEP).) 2.8 Software Rights. The MAA Committee on Computers in Mathematics Education recommended to the MAA Exec- utive and Finance Committee, which in turn has recommended to the MAA Board of Governors, the attached statement concerning Software and Intellectual Rights (see Attachment A.4). 2.9 Soviet mathematician refugees. Paul Nevai has written to the AMS and the MAA a letter concerning the plight of middle-aged middle level Soviet refugee mathematicians who may need help obtaining satisfactory positions (see Attachment A.5). The ECBT suggested that an ad hoc committee be established to consider this problem. (The letter from Nevai has subsequently been referred to the AMS-MAA Committee on Employment and Educational Policy (CEEP).) 2.10 Presidential Nominations for Election to the Nominating Committee The President has nominated Sylvain E. Cappell, Robert M. Hardt, Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Ray A. Kunze, and Paul C. Roberts to stand for election to the 1990 Nominating Committee. Robert W. Williams has been nominated by petition. All candidates have agreed to run. The term of office is three years. Three of the six candidates will be elected by preferential ballot. 2.11 Presidential Nominations for Election to the Editorial Boards Committee The President has nominated Linda Keen, Carlos E. Kenig, Andrew M. Odlyzko, and Barry Simon to stand for election to the 1990 Editorial Boards Committee. All candidates have agreed to stand for election. Two of four candidates will be elected by preferential ballot. 4 BOARDS AND COMMITTEES 4.1 Nominating Committee: Nominations for election rest with the Council. In addition to requesting suggestions for nom- inations from its Nominating Committee, the Council invites suggestions by petition and it has established procedures for considering these. 4 BOARDS AND COMMITTEES 6 4.1.1 Nominations for Vice-President. Having received the requisite number of valid signatures to suggest the nomination of Lenore Blum to stand for election for the position of Vice-President and the agreement of Blum to stand for election if nominated, the Council, in executive session, nominated Lenore Blum to stand for election to the
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 1 Lenore Blum, Matemática Computacional, Algoritmos, Lógica, Geometría Algebraica
    MATEMATICOS ACTUALES Lenore Blum, Matemática computacional, Algoritmos, Lógica, Geometría algebraica. Debemos dejar claro desde el comienzo de esta biografía de Lenore Blum que Blum es su apellido de casada, que solo tomó después de casarse con Manuel Blum, que también era matemático. Sin embargo, para evitar confusiones, nos referiremos a ella como Blum a lo largo de este artículo. Los padres de Lenore eran Irving y Rose y, además de una hermana, Harriet, que era dos años menor que Lenore, ella era parte de una extensa familia judía con varias tías y tíos. Su madre Rose era maestra de ciencias de secundaria en Nueva York. Lenore asistió a una escuela pública en la ciudad de Nueva York hasta que tuvo nueve años cuando su familia se mudó a América del Sur. Su padre Irving trabajaba en el negocio de importación/exportación y él y su esposa se instalaron en Venezuela con Lenore y Harriet. Durante su primer año en Caracas, Lenore no asistió a la escuela, sin embargo su madre le enseñó. Básicamente, la familia era demasiado pobre para poder pagar las tasas escolares. Al cabo de un año, Rose ocupó un puesto docente en la Escuela Americana E. Campo Alegre, en Caracas, y esto proporcionó suficiente dinero para permitir que Lenore asistiera a la escuela secundaria y luego a la escuela secundaria en Caracas. Mientras estaba en Caracas, conoció a Manuel Blum, quien también era de una familia judía. Manuel salió de Caracas mientras Lenore todavía estaba allí en la escuela y se fue a los Estados Unidos donde ingresó como estudiante en el Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts.
    [Show full text]
  • The Association for Women in Mathematics: How and Why It Was
    Mathematical Communities t’s 2011 and the Association for Women in Mathematics The Association (AWM) is celebrating 40 years of supporting and II promoting female students, teachers, and researchers. It’s a joyous occasion filled with good food, warm for Women conversation, and great mathematics—four plenary lectures and eighteen special sessions. There’s even a song for the conference, titled ‘‘((3 + 1) 9 3 + 1) 9 3 + 1 Anniversary in Mathematics: How of the AWM’’ and sung (robustly!) to the tune of ‘‘This Land is Your Land’’ [ICERM 2011]. The spirit of community and and Why It Was the beautiful mathematics on display during ‘‘40 Years and Counting: AWM’s Celebration of Women in Mathematics’’ are truly a triumph for the organization and for women in Founded, and Why mathematics. It’s Still Needed in the 21st Century SARAH J. GREENWALD,ANNE M. LEGGETT, AND JILL E. THOMLEY This column is a forum for discussion of mathematical communities throughout the world, and through all time. Our definition of ‘‘mathematical community’’ is Participants from the Special Session in Number Theory at the broadest: ‘‘schools’’ of mathematics, circles of AWM’s 40th Anniversary Celebration. Back row: Cristina Ballantine, Melanie Matchett Wood, Jackie Anderson, Alina correspondence, mathematical societies, student Bucur, Ekin Ozman, Adriana Salerno, Laura Hall-Seelig, Li-Mei organizations, extra-curricular educational activities Lim, Michelle Manes, Kristin Lauter; Middle row: Brooke Feigon, Jessica Libertini-Mikhaylov, Jen Balakrishnan, Renate (math camps, math museums, math clubs), and more. Scheidler; Front row: Lola Thompson, Hatice Sahinoglu, Bianca Viray, Alice Silverberg, Nadia Heninger. (Photo Cour- What we say about the communities is just as tesy of Kiran Kedlaya.) unrestricted.
    [Show full text]
  • HHMC 2017 (2017 Workshop on Hybrid Human-Machine Computing)
    CRonEM CRonEM HHMC 2017 (2017 Workshop on Hybrid Human-Machine Computing) 20 & 21 September 2017 Treetops, Wates House, University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, UK Programme INTRODUCTION KEYNOTE 1 The 2017 Workshop on Hybrid Human-Machine Computing (HHMC 2017) is 2-day workshop, to be held Title: Password Generation, an Example of Human Computation at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, on 20 and 21 September, 2017. It is a workshop co-funded by Abstract: University of Surrey’s Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), a number of other organizations and related research projects. A password schema is an algorithm for humans - working in their heads - without paper and pencil - to transform challenges (typically website names) into responses (passwords). When we talk about “computing” we often mean computers do something (for humans), but due to the more and more blurred boundary between humans and computers, this old paradigm of “computing” has To start this talk, the speaker will ask for 2 or 3 volunteers, whisper instructions in their ears, then have them changed drastically, e.g., in human computation humans do all or part of the computing (for machines), transform audience-proposed challenges (like AMAZON and FACEBOOK) into passwords. in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) humans are working together with assistance from The passwords will look random. The audience will be challenged to guess properties of the passwords but computers to conduct cooperative work, in social computing and computer-mediated communication even the simple schema the speaker whispered to the volunteers will produce passwords that look random. people’s social behaviors are intermingled with computer systems so computing happens with humans and These passwords can be easily made so strong that they pass virtually all password tests, like passwordmeter.
    [Show full text]
  • Introduction
    Copyrighted Material Introduction This book, unlike most books on mathematics, is about math- ematicians, their extraordinary passion for mathematics and their full complexity of being. We emphasize the social and emotional sides of mathematical life. In the great and famous works of Euclid and Newton, we find axioms and theorems. The mathematics seems to speak for itself. No first person speaks, no second person is addressed: “Here is Truth, here is Proof, no more need be said.” Going back to the reports of Plato and Descartes, mathematical think- ing has been seen as pure reason–a perfect and eternal faculty. The thoughts, feelings, and tribulations of the mathematician are not included. But it doesn’t take deep reflection to realize that this perfec- tion is a human creation. Mathematics is an artifact created by thinking creatures of flesh and blood. Indeed, this fact has al- ways been known to poets, novelists, and dramatists. Math- ematicians, like all people, think socially and emotionally in the categories of their time and place and culture. In any great en- deavor, such as the structuring of mathematical knowledge, we bring all of our humanity to the work. Along with reasoning, the work includes the joy of discovery, the struggle with uncer- tainty, and many other emotions. And it is shaped by social real- ities, including war, political oppression, sexism, and racism, as they have affected society and mathematicians in different eras. Today the connection between thought and emotion is a ma- jor active field of scientific research. Recently the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio and a collaborator wrote, “Modern biol- ogy reveals humans to be fundamentally emotional and social Copyrighted Material • intrODUCTION creatures.
    [Show full text]
  • Contemporary Mathematics 78
    CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS 78 Braids Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Artin's Braid Group held July 13-26. 1986 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, California Joan S. Birman Anatoly Libgober Editors http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/078 Recent Titles in This Series 120 Robert S. Doran, Editor, Selfadjoint and nonselfadjoint operator algebras and operator theory, 1991 119 Robert A. Melter, Azriel Rosenfeld, and Prabir Bhattacharya, Editors, Vision geometry, 1991 118 Yan Shi-Jian, Wang Jiagang, and Yang Chung-chun, Editors, Probability theory and its applications in China, 1991 117 Morton Brown, Editor, Continuum theory and dynamical systems, 1991 116 Brian Harboume and Robert Speiser, Editors, Algebraic geometry: Sundance 1988, 1991 115 Nancy Flournoy an'il Robert K. Tsutakawa, Editors, Statistical multiple integration, 1991 114 Jeffrey C. Lagarias and Michael J. Todd, Editors, Mathematical developments arising from linear programming, 1990 113 Eric Grinberg and Eric Todd Quinto, Editors, Integral geometry and tomography, 1990 112 Philip J. Brown and Wayne A. Fuller, Editors, Statistical analysis of measurement error models and applications, 1990 Ill Earl S. Kramer and Spyros S. Magliveras, Editors, Finite geometries and combinatorial designs, I 990 II 0 Georgia Benkart and J. Marshall Osborn, Editors, Lie algebras and related topics, 1990 109 Benjamin Fine, Anthony Gaglione, and Francis C. Y. Tang, Editors, Combinatorial group theory, 1990 108 Melvyn S. Berger, Editor, Mathematics of nonlinear science, 1990 107 Mario Milman and Tomas Schonbek, Editors, Harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, 1990 I 06 Wilfried Sieg, Editor, Logic and computation, 1990 I 05 Jerome Kaminker, Editor, Geometric and topological invariants of elliptic operators, 1990 I 04 Michael Makkai and Robert Pare, Accessible categories: The foundations of categorical model theory, 1989 I 03 Steve Fisk, Coloring theories, 1989 I 02 Stephen McAdam, Primes associated to an ideal, 1989 101 S.-Y.
    [Show full text]
  • August 1995 Council Minutes
    AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY COUNCIL MINUTES Burlington, Vermont 05 August 1995 Abstract The Council of the American Mathematical Society met at 1:00 p.m. on Satur- day, 05 August 1995, in the Emerald Grand Ballroom in the Sheraton Burlington, Burlington, Vermont. These are the minutes for the meeting. Members present were Georgia Benkart, Joan Birman, Robert Daverman (vot- ing Associate Secretary), David Epstein, Robert Fossum, John Franks, Ron Gra- ham, Steven Krantz, Andy Magid (Associate Secretary), Cathleen Morawetz, Frank Morgan, Franklin Peterson, Marc Rieffel, Cora Sadosky, Norberto Salinas, Peter Shalen, Lesley Sibner (Associate Secretary), B. A. Taylor, Jean Taylor, and Sylvia Wiegand. Staff and others invited to attend were Don Babbitt (Publisher), Annalisa Cran- nell (Committee on the Profession Representative), Chandler Davis (Canadian Mathematical Society Representative), John Ewing (Executive Director), Tim Gog- gins (Development Officer), Carolyn Gordon (Editorial Boards Committee Repre- sentative), Jim Lewis (Committee on Science Policy Chair), James Maxwell (AED), Don McClure (Trustee), Susan Montgomery (Trustee), Everett Pitcher (Former Secretary), Sam Rankin (AED), and Kelly Young (Assistant to the Secretary). President Morawetz presided. 1 2 CONTENTS Contents IAGENDA 4 0 CALL TO ORDER AND INTRODUCTIONS. 4 1MINUTES 4 1.1March95Council...................................... 4 1.2 05/95 Meeting of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. 4 2 CONSENT AGENDA. 4 2.1Resolutions......................................... 4 2.1.1 Exxon Foundation. ......................... 4 2.2CommitteeAdministration................................ 5 2.2.1 Dischargewiththanks............................... 5 2.2.2 CommitteeCharges................................ 5 3 REPORTS OF BOARDS AND STANDING COMMITTEES. 5 3.1 EDITORIAL BOARDS COMMITTEE (EBC). .................. 5 3.1.1 TransactionsandMemoirsEditorialCommittee................. 5 3.1.2 Journal of the AMS .
    [Show full text]
  • Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany
    Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany Individual Fates and Global Impact Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze princeton university press princeton and oxford Copyright 2009 © by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Siegmund-Schultze, R. (Reinhard) Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany: individual fates and global impact / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-12593-0 (cloth) — ISBN 978-0-691-14041-4 (pbk.) 1. Mathematicians—Germany—History—20th century. 2. Mathematicians— United States—History—20th century. 3. Mathematicians—Germany—Biography. 4. Mathematicians—United States—Biography. 5. World War, 1939–1945— Refuges—Germany. 6. Germany—Emigration and immigration—History—1933–1945. 7. Germans—United States—History—20th century. 8. Immigrants—United States—History—20th century. 9. Mathematics—Germany—History—20th century. 10. Mathematics—United States—History—20th century. I. Title. QA27.G4S53 2008 510.09'04—dc22 2008048855 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Sabon Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ press.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 10 987654321 Contents List of Figures and Tables xiii Preface xvii Chapter 1 The Terms “German-Speaking Mathematician,” “Forced,” and“Voluntary Emigration” 1 Chapter 2 The Notion of “Mathematician” Plus Quantitative Figures on Persecution 13 Chapter 3 Early Emigration 30 3.1. The Push-Factor 32 3.2. The Pull-Factor 36 3.D.
    [Show full text]
  • 2003 Newsletter
    1.6180339887498948482045868343656381177203091798057628621354486227052604628189024497072072041893911374847540880753868917521266338622235369317931800607667263544333890865959395829056 M e t r o M a t h 2.7182818284590452353602874713526624977572470936999595749669676277240766303535475945713821785251664274274663919320030599218174135966290435729003342952605956307381323286279434907632 N e w s l e t t e r Metropolitan New York Section of The Mathematical Association of America February 2003 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055 Bronx Brooklyn Columbia Dutchess Greene Manhattan Nassau Orange Putnam Queens Richmond Rockland Suffolk Sullivan Ulster Westchester 1.7724538509055160272981674833411451827975494561223871282138077898529112845910321813749506567385446654162268236242825706662361528657244226025250937096027870684620376986531051228499 A N N U A L M E E T I N G Saturday, 3 May 2003 9:00 AM − 5:00 PM LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) Long Island City, New York (Inquire Within for More Information) E L E C T I O N B A L L O T E N C L O S E D SECTION OFFICERS Section Governor Raymond N. Greenwell (516) 463-5573 (2002 – 2005) Hofstra University matrng@hofstra.edu Chair John (Jack) Winn (631) 420-2182 (2001 – 2003) Farmingdale (SUNY) winnja@farmingdale.edu Chair-Elect Abraham S. Mantell (516) 572-8092 (2001 – 2003) Nassau Community College (SUNY) mantell@ncc.edu Secretary Dan King (914) 395-2424 (2000 – 2003)
    [Show full text]
  • Some Comments on Multiple Discovery in Mathematics
    Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 7 | Issue 1 January 2017 Some Comments on Multiple Discovery in Mathematics Robin W. Whitty Queen Mary University of London Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm Part of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, and the Other Mathematics Commons Recommended Citation Whitty, R. W. "Some Comments on Multiple Discovery in Mathematics," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 7 Issue 1 (January 2017), pages 172-188. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.201701.14 . Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol7/iss1/14 ©2017 by the authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. JHM is an open access bi-annual journal sponsored by the Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences and published by the Claremont Colleges Library | ISSN 2159-8118 | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ The editorial staff of JHM works hard to make sure the scholarship disseminated in JHM is accurate and upholds professional ethical guidelines. However the views and opinions expressed in each published manuscript belong exclusively to the individual contributor(s). The publisher and the editors do not endorse or accept responsibility for them. See https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/policies.html for more information. Some Comments on Multiple Discovery in Mathematics1 Robin M. Whitty Queen Mary University of London r.whitty@qmul.ac.uk Synopsis Among perhaps many things common to Kuratowski's Theorem in graph theory, Reidemeister's Theorem in topology, and Cook's Theorem in theoretical com- puter science is this: all belong to the phenomenon of simultaneous discovery in mathematics. We are interested to know whether this phenomenon, and its close cousin repeated discovery, give rise to meaningful questions regarding causes, trends, categories, etc.
    [Show full text]
  • Gail Letzter · Kristin Lauter Erin Chambers ·Nancy Flournoy Julia
    Association for Women in Mathematics Series Gail Letzter · Kristin Lauter Erin Chambers · Nancy Flournoy Julia Elisenda Grigsby · Carla Martin Kathleen Ryan · Konstantina Trivisa Editors Advances in the Mathematical Sciences Research from the 2015 Association for Women in Mathematics Symposium Association for Women in Mathematics Series Volume 6 Series editor Kristin Lauter, Redmond, WA, USA Focusing on the groundbreaking work of women in mathematics past, present, and future, Springer’s Association for Women in Mathematics Series presents the latest research and proceedings of conferences worldwide organized by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). All works are peer-reviewed to meet the highest standards of scientific literature, while presenting topics at the cutting edge of pure and applied mathematics. Since its inception in 1971, The Association for Women in Mathematics has been a non-profit organization designed to help encourage women and girls to study and pursue active careers in mathematics and the mathematical sciences and to promote equal opportunity and equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences. Currently, the organization represents more than 3000 members and 200 institutions constituting a broad spectrum of the mathematical community in the United States and around the world. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13764 Gail Letzter Editor-in-Chief Kristin Lauter • Erin Chambers Nancy Flournoy • Julia Elisenda Grigsby Carla Martin • Kathleen Ryan Konstantina Trivisa
    [Show full text]
  • AMS November 2006 ECBT Minutes
    AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES NOVEMBER 17-18, 2006 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND MINUTES A joint meeting of the Executive Committee of the Council (EC) and the Board of Trustees (BT) was held Friday and Saturday, November 17-18, 2006, at the AMS Headquarters in Providence, Rhode Island. The following members of the EC were present: James G. Arthur, Sylvain E. Cappell, Walter Craig, Robert J. Daverman, James G. Glimm, and Paul J. Sally, Jr. Robert M. Guralnick was unable to attend. The following members of the BT were present: James G. Arthur, John B. Conway, John M. Franks, Eric M. Friedlander, Donald E. McClure, Jean E. Taylor, and Carol S. Wood. Linda Keen was unable to attend. Also present were the following AMS staff members: Gary G. Brownell (Deputy Executive Director), Kevin F. Clancey (Executive Editor, Mathematical Reviews), John H. Ewing (Executive Director and Publisher), Ellen H. Heiser (Assistant to the Executive Director [and recording secretary]), Elizabeth A. Huber (Deputy Publisher), Ellen J. Maycock (Associate Executive Director, Meetings and Professional Services), and Samuel M. Rankin (Associate Executive Director, Government Relations and Programs). Constance W. Pass (Chief Financial Officer) was present on Saturday. President James Arthur presided over the EC and ECBT portions of the meeting (items beginning with 0, 1, or 2). Board Chair Jean Taylor presided over the BT portion of the meeting (items beginning with 3). Items occur in numerical order, which is not necessarily the order in which they were discussed at the meeting. 0 CALL TO ORDER AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 0.1 Opening of the Meeting and Introductions.
    [Show full text]
  • Summer 2004 Vol
    A PUBLICATION FOR AUGSBURG COLLEGE ALUMNI & FRIENDS Spring/Summer 2004 Vol. 66, No. 3-4 LLettersETTERS Editor’s note n 1924, at a time of many changes continue to make an Augsburg current Augsburg student, who has faced Ibrought by the expansion of education available to many students, the greatest of challenges in recovery Augsburg’s academic program and the the endowment must grow. from a devastating brain injury. With the introduction of women students, Through Augsburg Now, news and compassion and commitment of Augsburgian editor Caleb Quanbeck stories about the campaign, Access to Augsburg staff and faculty working wrote, “Now that we are increasing in Excellence: The Campaign for Augsburg with his family, he was able to begin a numbers and have developed more College, will be featured in a newsletter college career. comprehensive curricula will we be called Vision. In this issue, a special Stephanie Quick, an Augsburg willing to assume the responsibilities edition of Vision presents an overview of graduate and seminary student, is also which come with the greater Augsburg?” the campaign as well as stories about the featured. Her efforts to collect donated (See Auggie Thoughts, p. 44.) generosity of donors who have already prom dresses—that most likely would Over the years there is little doubt made significant contributions and about never be worn again—from parishioners that the response has always been a students who benefit from it. at her home church in the Twin Cities resounding “yes.” This year also marks a change in and through her sister here at Augsburg, As readers 80 years from now look leadership on Augsburg’s Board of brightened the lives of Native Alaskan back to this day and what is being Regents.
    [Show full text]