American Mathematical Society headquartered in Providence
By Dana Griffin
@DanaGriffinABC6
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Tucked away in
“When people drive by they think we’re the CIA because it’s a brick building with not a lot of writing on it and they think there’s a lot of secrets going on but no secrets here” said Breen.
The American Mathematical Society was created in 1880 by a group of mathematicians from
Inside, research, editing and book cover designs are created.
Although based in
People around the world have read their published books and journals.
AMS publishes mostly math research books for graduate students but even has a mathematics children’s book called “Really Big Numbers.”
“A lot of people think the last thing that was discovered was calculus in the 1600’s but there is new math being discovered everyday and so we try to communicate that math. There are 30,000 members– mostly in the
Mathematicians may not have reputations of being fun people but here, personality is at every corner and these minds are helping shape learning for future generations– or those just curious about how to win the lotto
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