Introduction Young mathematicians have been facing dismal job prospects throughout the nineties. The fall unemployment rate for new Ph.D.s in the U.S., as measured by the AMS-IMS-MAA Annual Survey (Second Report), rose from 2.5% in 1990 to a peak of 13.2% in 1994.1 Unemployment rates have fallen moderately since to the current level of 9.5% in 1996. This is not the first time that labor market ...

From March 2020 until June 2021 secondary education in Greece experienced the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic. The first measure taken was general closure face-to-face teaching at all levels and provision distance learning through so-called emergency remote teaching. Mathematicians dealt with unprecedented difficult situations. In present paper we record views 218 mathematicians working Greek...

In November of 1979, there appeared a paper in the Bulletin of the AMS by L. Auslander and R. Tolimieri with the delightful title of “Is Computing with the Finite Fourier Transform Pure or Applied Mathematics?” The question was of course rhetorical and one of the main goals of the paper was to show that the finite Fourier transform, and the family of efficient algorithms used to compute it, the...

Pure and Applied Mathematics—Two Sides of a Coin In November of 1979 there appeared in the Bulletin of the AMS a paper by L. Auslander and R. Tolimieri [3] with the delightful title “Is Computing with the Finite Fourier Transform Pure or Applied Mathematics?” This rhetorical question was answered by showing that in fact the finite Fourier transform and the family of efficient algorithms used to...

By conceptual infrastructure of mathematics I mean the concepts, the terminology, the symbols, and the notations that mathematicians and people who apply mathematics use in their daily professional activities. This is very different from what is often called the conceptual foundation of mathematics, which deals critically with the deeper meaning of these concepts, an activity which only some ma...

My graduate research involves the application of stochastic analysis to biological problems. Recently, interest in mathematical biology has grown enormously and mathematicians in various areas have applied their theories to biological models. As a result, interactions between mathematicians and biologists have become more commonplace. Research experiences in my graduate studies are well balance...