American Mathematical Society

06/05/2026

The federal government is proposing changes to student visa policies that will, if adopted, impact graduate education in mathematics for international students.

What You Can Do:

If you live in the district of one of the four members of Congress who signed the letter, think about reaching out to thank them for their support. If you have a personal story about how international student visa policies have affected you, your students, colleagues, or institution, consider sharing it.

Stay in the loop by following AMS updates on visa and other federal policy changes affecting the mathematics community.

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06/05/2026

Read: "The Shapley value, or how to split a check in n! easy steps" by Anil Venkatesh. Game theorists developed the Shapley value as a means of fairly distributing the total gains of a partnership (or fairly assigning blame for a loss!) With cameos from entropy, the symmetry group, and the power of averaging, this month's column examines the Shapley value's implications for computer science, mathematics, and philosophy.

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06/05/2026

The Mathematics of Cellular Automata is 35% off during our Summer Reading Sale!

From Conway’s Game of Life to dynamical systems, this introduction by Jane Hawkins explores how simple rules can create surprisingly complex behavior. Sale ends July 4.

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06/04/2026

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is now the "adhering organization" to the International Mathematical Union (IMU). This means that the AMS, via the U.S. National Committee for Mathematics (USNC/M), represents and supports the IMU's work at the national level.

"The AMS is delighted to be able to serve the mathematics community by taking on the responsibility of being the U.S. adhering organization to the IMU," AMS CEO John Meier said. "The IMU's focus on promoting global cooperation and activity in mathematics is directly aligned with our mission to serve the national and international mathematics community."

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06/04/2026

Today, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and MIT Press announce a new joint mathematics book series, POLYMATH, which will present readers with rich, accessible, and irresistible mathematics books for a general audience.

The first book in the series will be Double-Take: A Field Guide to Optical Illusions, Magic, and Movie Tricks Arising from Perspective Geometry by acclaimed mathematician Annalisa Crannell, publishing in fall 2027. In her Double-Take, Crannell investigates how artists, magicians, and Hollywood cinematographers exploit the geometry of perspective to baffle, tease, and hoodwink the viewer.






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06/04/2026

The American Mathematical Society would like to congratulate AMS Life Member Frank Calegari and all the other mathematical scientists and computer scientists who were named 2026 Royal Society Fellows.

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06/03/2026

There’s still time to nominate talented students for support on their journey to graduate study in the mathematical, statistical, or quantitative sciences.

ICYMI, the Facilitated Graduate Admissions Program (F-GAP) nomination closing date is Friday, 6/12.

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06/03/2026

Your Daily Epsilon of Math Wall Calendar 2026 by Rebecca Rapoport and Dean Chung is filled with surprising, thought-provoking math insights to enjoy all year long.

Already priced at just $10 — and now an additional 35% off during the AMS Summer Reading Sale through July 4.

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06/03/2026

Inverse Problems, Geometric and Topological Aspects of Representation Theory, and Low-Dimensional Topology
Edited by: Mee Seong Im, Hanna E. Makaruk, Bach Nguyen, and Robert Owczarek

Part of the Contemporary Mathematics Series, this volume contains the proceedings of the AMS Special Session on the Inverse Problems at the AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting. This book presents a wide variety of high-quality research in Reshetikhin–Turaev invariants, Khovanov homology, quantum groups, topological quantum field theories over algebraic number fields, nonreductive geometric invariant theory, Chebyshev polynomials, oriented bundles over oriented surfaces, and entanglement topology and tensor networks

For graduate students and research mathematicians interested in inverse problems, geometric and topological aspects of representation theory and low-dimensional topology.

Don’t have access? Ask your library to contact [email protected] to subscribe!

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06/02/2026