The March issue of American Mathematical Monthly is full of wonderful reading material:
- Indika Rajapakse et al describe G H Hardy’s contribution to computational genetics, namely, Hardy-Weinberg law (pdf);
- Steve Batterson writes about Hubert A Newton, the thesis advisor of E H Moore (pdf), who is considered the father of American mathematics (which, in turn, makes Newton the grandfather of American mathematics): apparently, Newton also acted as the confidant and sounding board for J W Gibbs;
- Irwin Sandberg reviews Judith R Goodstein’s book on Volterra (pdf), and, Ivar Ekeland reviews Andreas K Heyne and Alice K Heyne’s book on Euler (pdf); and,
- John Ewing, the Executive Director of AMS , has a piece arguing that Open Access journals (where authors pay) is a step in the wrong direction (pdf), and that they are bleeding the patient, namely, the scholarly journals; the discussion in the piece seems to be specific to biomedical journals. Disclaimer: I personally am for Open Access and am not in complete agreement with Ewing’s arguments (See my next post).
Take a look!
Tags: computational genetics, E H Moore, Euler, G H Hardy, Hardy-Weinberg theorem, Hubert A Newton, J W Gibbs, open access, Volterra
