Recent AMS articles and reviews

[Jochen Fromm]

*** Recent Articles and Commentaries

Why Is Mathematical Biology So Hard?
Michael C. Reed
http://www.ams.org/notices/200403/comm-reed.pdf

The Poincar? Dodecahedral Space and
the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations
Jeffrey Weeks
http://www.ams.org/notices/200406/fea-weeks.pdf

*** New and old Reviews of the AMS
(the American Mathematical Society)

Review of SYNC: The Emerging
Science of Spontaneous Order
Reviewed by G. Bard Ermentrout
http://www.ams.org/notices/200403/fea-ermentrout.pdf

Review of the new books from barabasi & watts
* Linked: The New Science of Networks
* Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Reviewed by Rick Durrett
http://www.ams.org/notices/200402/rev-durrett.pdf

Review of Duncan J. Watts' book
* Small Worlds
Reviewed by Carson C. Chow
http://www.ams.org/notices/200008/rev-chow.pdf

Review of two books from Chaitin
* Exploring Randomness
* The Unknowable
Reviewed by Panu Raatikainen
http://www.ams.org/notices/200109/rev-panu.pdf

Stephen Smale: The
Mathematician Who Broke
the Dimension Barrier
Reviewed by Rob Kirby
http://www.ams.org/notices/200011/rev-kirby.pdf

It Must Be Beautiful: Great
Equations of Modern Science
Reviewed by William G. Faris
http://www.ams.org/notices/200303/rev-faris.pdf

A Review of Everything and More
Reviewed by Michael Harris
http://www.ams.org/notices/200406/rev-harris.pdf


A Mathematician Looks at Wolfram's New Kind of Science,
Review by Lawrence Gray
http://www.ams.org/notices/200302/fea-gray.pdf

A new kind of science, by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Media, Inc.
Reviewed by Steven G. Krantz
http://tinyurl.com/33ohx


What is ..

..an Operad ?
http://www.ams.org/notices/200406/what-is.pdf

..a free lunch ?
http://www.ams.org/notices/200405/what-is.pdf

..a Billiard ?
http://www.ams.org/notices/200404/what-is.pdf

[Roger Critchlow-2]

Jochen Fromm wrote:

> *** Recent Articles and Commentaries
>

A great selection, thank you.

Via the Santa Fe Public Library periodicals link page, the Directory of
Open Access Journals, hosted by the Lund University Libraries, currently
lists 1142 journals which are available online without restrictions.

        http://www.doaj.org/

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[Jochen Fromm]

>
> Via the Santa Fe Public Library periodicals link page, the Directory of
> Open Access Journals, hosted by the Lund University Libraries, currently
> lists 1142 journals which are available online without restrictions.
>
> http://www.doaj.org/
>

Looks interesting. I didn't know that there is an
Egyptian Journal of Solids or a Journal of
Seventeenth-Century Music ;-)

[Owen Densmore]

This reminds me: I've been asked to submit a paper to the Open source
and
standards conference on Sept. 12-14 in Phoenix, AZ.  I suggested the
topic of "Open Source Research".

There are a lot of pieces to this, I think.  The free access to
journals is certainly a large part of this.  There is more too, things
like access to the data and software behind the papers, enhanced web
publishing with wiki comments added to the papers, agent model
"docking" projects, and so on.  Wikipedia is likely a good example as
well, a commons for the basic definitions and formalisms we use.

I'd like folks to pass along any ideas and examples they have in this
space. This is a bit interesting in this regard:
   http://creativecommons.org/projects/science/

One weakness we face in this area, I think, is the difficulty of
publishing mathematical notation in a widely available fashion.  There
is the W3C "MathML" effort but it does not seem to have taken off.  It
would sure be nice to cut/paste an equation and integrate/graph with in
commonly available tools.

        -- Owen

Owen Densmore         908 Camino Santander   Santa Fe, NM 87505
Cell: 505-570-0168    Home: 505-988-3787     http://backspaces.net

On Jul 5, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Roger E Critchlow Jr wrote:

> Jochen Fromm wrote:
>
>> *** Recent Articles and Commentaries
>
> A great selection, thank you.
>
> Via the Santa Fe Public Library periodicals link page, the Directory
> of Open Access Journals, hosted by the Lund University Libraries,
> currently lists 1142 journals which are available online without
> restrictions.
>
> http://www.doaj.org/
>
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[Roger Critchlow-2]

Owen Densmore wrote:

> One weakness we face in this area, I think, is the difficulty of
> publishing mathematical notation in a widely available fashion.  There
> is the W3C "MathML" effort but it does not seem to have taken off.  It
> would sure be nice to cut/paste an equation and integrate/graph with in
> commonly available tools.

How would you figure out whether "MathML" had "taken off", given it's of
interest to a vanishingly small proportion of the internet population?

I hadn't checked in a while, but it turns out that it's implemented in
all current Mozilla based releases, ie Mozilla, Netscape, and Firefox,
and all that's needed for me to render the test pages at:

        http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/

is to install a few fonts, courtesy of Wolfram Research.  Supported
under Windows, Linux, and MacOSX.

Actually, check out the implementations page:

        http://www.w3.org/Math/implementations.html

Best from a fast connection as there are a lot of screenshots to
download, and last updated 6/19/2004.

There's a free Internet Explorer plugin for rendering MathML if you're
still playing Redmond Roulette.

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