Notices of the American Mathematical Society

This book, inspired by the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, aims to engage students in mathematical discovery through fun and approachable problems that reveal deeper mathematical ideas. Each chapter starts with a gentle on-ramp, such as a game or puzzle requiring no more than simple arithmetic or intuitive concepts of symmetry. Follow-up problems and activities require intuitive logic and reveal more sophisticated notions of strategy and algorithms. Projects are designed so that progress is more important than any end goal, ensuring that students will learn something significant no matter how far they get. The process of understanding the questions and how they build on one another becomes an exhilarating ride, revealing serious mathematics before the reader is aware of the transition. This book can be used in classrooms, math clubs, after school activities, homeschooling, and parent/student gatherings and is appropriate for students of age 8 to 18, as well as for teachers wanting to hone their skills. In the interest of fostering a greater awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and everyday life, MSRI and the AMS are publishing books in the Mathematical Circles Library series as a service to young people, their parents and teachers, and the mathematics profession. June/July 2022 Front Cover Rethinking Graduate Admissions in the Mathematical Sciences Abel Prize Call for Nominations Table of Contents Masthead Letters to the Editor A Word From...Juliette Bruce Low-Rank Approximation for Multiscale PDEs by Ke Chen, Shi Chen, Qin Li, Jianfeng Lu, and Stephen J. Wright Hypergeometric Movies by David P. Roberts and Fernando Rodriguez Villegas Coloring With a Limited Painbox by Stephanie van Willigenburg Painting the Phase Portrait of a Dynamical System with the Computational Tool of Lagrangian Descriptors by Stephen Wiggins and Victor J. Garcia-Garrido Early Career Legacy of Robin Thomas by Chun-Hung Liu AMS Hiring Robert Strichartz by Kasso Okoudjou, Luke Rogers, and Alexander Teplyaev C.R. Rao (1920-) Celebrates His 101st Birthday by George E. Andrews, G.J. Babu, Zhidong Bai, David Banks, Herman Chernoff, Roy Frieden, Yasunori Fujikoshi, Kanti V. Mardia, Basilio de Braganca Pereira, Urmila Pingle, M.B. Rao, Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, James Rosenberger, S.R.S. Varadhan, and Yuehua Wu A Current Look at Mathematics Graduate Programs by Michael J. Dorff and Scott A. Wolpert Curating Mathematics for the 21st Century by Satyan L. Devadoss The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop, Reviewed by David Aldous Bookshelf AMS Bookshelf Optimal Strategies and Rules for the Game of Horse by Daniel Rosenthal and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Math in the Media The Mathematics of Cyber Defense by John A. Emanuello and Ahmad Ridley Statement of the AMS 2021 Contributors AMS Governance Calls for Nominations & Applications New from SIAM 2019-2020 Faculty Salaries Report by Amanda L. Golbeck, Thomas H. Barr, Colleen A. Rose, and Vina P. Macias Academic Recruitment, Hiring, and Attrition during 2018-2019 by Nusrat Jahan, Thomas H. Barr, Colleen A. Rose, and Vina P. Macias The Mathematicians at the Heart of MathSciNet--Associate Editors at Mathematical Reviews Share How their Work Makes Possible an Invaluable Research Tool by Scott Hershberger Dennis Sullivan Awarded 2022 Abel Prize George Lusztig Awarded 2022 Wolf Prize AMS Updates Mathematics People Mathematics Opportunities Classified Advertising New Books Offered by the AMS Meetings & Conferences of the AMS June/July Table of Contents Meetings & Conferences of the AMS Open Math Notes New Releases from the AMS Opinions expressed in signed Notices articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect opinions of the editors or policies of the American Mathematical Society.