Interesting Articles
Below are some articles that highlight some important ongoing issues in Mathematics culture, our collective value system, and how we conduct ourselves as a community.
- Publishing Computational Mathematics (AMS Notices, Feb 2012)
- This article describes some of the conceptual differences between “traditional” research (writing papers only) and computational research (focusing on algorithms and their implementations in readable usable computer code).
- The Demise of the Young Scholars Program (AMS Notices, March 1998)
- This article describes the lifecycle of an NSF program that for a time funded many important programs giving high-school students a “real-time” experience of what it is to do mathematics research (for themselves).