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News (page 2)
Royal Society of Chemistry sounds alarm over mathematics preparation News

By overconvergent
from the geometrical intuition department
Posted Sun Apr 29, 2007 at 03:02:54 PM PDT
The Royal Society of Chemistry warned this week that students in Britain were increasingly badly prepared for university courses, because mathematics is not compulsory in schools after the age of 16.

They ran a competition, comparing a Chinese entrance examination (in Chemistry) with a British equivalent.

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The 2006/7 Wolf Prize News

By Adonis
Posted Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 03:02:34 PM PDT
THE 2006/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS The Prize Committee for Mathematics has unanimously decided that the 2006/7 Wolf Prize will be jointly awarded to: Stephen J. Smale of the University of California at Berkeley for his "groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics" and Harry Furstenberg of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for his "profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogenous flows".

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YMN Events at the Joint Meetings News

By dkung
from the coming events department
Posted Tue Dec 19, 2006 at 11:56:46 AM PDT
We hope to see everyone at the Joint Meetings in New Orleans. I'll be there doing my best to pump some much needed tourist cash into the devastated economy.

As for YMN, we have lots of events planned. More on the flip side...

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Editorial board resigns en masse News

By pdehaye
Posted Mon Oct 30, 2006 at 02:24:42 AM PDT
After months of unsuccessful negotiations with publisher Elsevier about the price policy of library subscriptions, the entire editorial board of the journal Topology handed in their resignation, with effect from 31 December, 2006. See their resignation letter and an article in the New York Sun.

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Paul Halmos, 1916-2006 News

By Emil Volcheck
Posted Sun Oct 15, 2006 at 01:38:18 PM PDT
Paul Halmos passed away October 2 in Los Gatos, California. He was the author of more than a dozen books, many of them familiar to mathematicians around the world, and was acknowledged for his expository skill, both in writing and speaking. He received many awards during his lifetime, including the AMS Steele Prize (1983, for his many graduate texts) and the MAA Gung and Hu Award (2000, for distinguished service to mathematics). For many years, he was active in the governance of the AMS, serving in many positions including as vice-president (1981-82). (From the AMS News)

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Nobel Prize in Economics awarded News

By overconvergent
from the real nobel prizes department
Posted Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 12:16:13 AM PDT
The 2006 Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to Edmund Phelps of Columbia, "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy".

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Ig Nobel Prizes awarded News

By overconvergent
from the photography department
Posted Fri Oct 06, 2006 at 11:46:07 AM PDT
The Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded for 2006. Unlike the real Nobel Prizes, there is a category for Mathematics, and it has been awarded this year ...

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New Mersenne Prime Discovered News

By overconvergent
Posted Tue Sep 19, 2006 at 06:40:46 AM PDT
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search has discovered a new largest prime number; 2^{32,582,657}-1. This number has about 9.8 million decimal digits.

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