{"id":253,"date":"2005-09-09T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T20:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=253"},"modified":"2005-09-27T10:05:32","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T14:05:32","slug":"october-ams-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"October AMS Notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/notices\/200509\/200509-toc.html\">October issue of the Notices of the AMS<\/a> is now available on-line.  It has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/notices\/200509\/comm-mawhin.pdf\">historical article about Henri Poincare<\/a>, and a short expository article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/notices\/200509\/what-is.pdf\">WHAT IS&#8230; a Pseudoholomorphic Curve<\/a> by Simon Donaldson.  Counting these pseudo-holomorphic curves is what topological sigma models do, and they have turned out to have many different kinds of mathematical applications, including the new field of so-called Gromov-Witten theory, as well as several others.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an extensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/notices\/200509\/fea-hironaka.pdf\">interview with Fields medalist Heisuke Hironaka<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve heard that Hironaka is a celebrity in Japan, with one of my colleagues once telling me that during a trip to Japan he was surprised to see Hironaka on a billboard selling something or other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The October issue of the Notices of the AMS is now available on-line. It has an interesting historical article about Henri Poincare, and a short expository article called WHAT IS&#8230; a Pseudoholomorphic Curve by Simon Donaldson. Counting these pseudo-holomorphic curves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}