A woman mathematician’s journey

Journey of a Woman With Terminal Cervical Cancer.

When a cervical cancer diagnosis is made during a terminal stage, a woman is faced with many challenges. Although a terminal illness has many negative effects, such as physical pain, scarring, fear, and sexual dysfunction, women may experience a positive impact on their life, such as improved well-being and a greater appreciation of daily life. The individual experience can lead to personal rev...

Herman Mntz: A Mathematicians Odyssey

This column is a forum for discussion of mathematical communities throughout the world, and through all time. Our definition of "mathematical community" is the broadest. We include "schools" of mathematics, circles of correspondence, mathematical societies, student organizations, and informal communities of cardinality greater than one. What we say about the communities is just as unrestricted....

Multifaceted Mathematicians

Murderers , Mathematicians ∗

This article outlines the history of our visualization of the interior of the human body. It throws some light on the emotional context and the underlying idea of man. In order of appearance on the historical stage, the leading characters are: painters, murderers (more precisely: executed persons including thieves driven merely by need, women with illegitimate children, etc.), and mathematician...

Mathematicians as Educators

18 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 44, NUMBER 1 The mathematical sciences professions are in a phase transition from which they may well emerge smaller and/or redistributed and much more dispersed. We are not an endangered species, but our health depends on being able to transcend our historic tendencies toward insularity, on our outreach to all of our sister and client communities. This message, in ...