Volume 5, Number 26
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26 June 2000 Vol. 5, No. 26
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
Millennium Prize Problems | Math News from Science News
Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium
MILLENNIUM PRIZE PROBLEMS - Clay Mathematics Institute
http://www.ams.org/claymath/
http://www.claymath.org/prize_problems/
In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, the
Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) of Cambridge, Massachusetts
has named seven "Millennium Prize Problems" focusing on
important classic questions that have resisted solution over
the years:
- P versus NP
- The Hodge Conjecture
- The Poincaré Conjecture
- The Riemann Hypothesis
- Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap
- Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness
- The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
The site offers brief descriptions and histories of each
problem. The Board of Directors of CMI will award $1 million
for each solution.
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MATH NEWS From Science News - MAA
http://www.maa.org/news/mathnews_scinews.html
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) hosts these
columns, chosen for their relevance to mathematics and
originally published in Science News Online:
http://www.sciencenews.org/
Topics from the year 2000 have included:
- Changes of Mathematical State
- Message in DNA tops Science Talent Search
- Great Computations: Owners of home computers join
researchers in cracking problems and crunching data
- Hunting for Higher Dimensions: Experimenters scurry to
test new theories suggesting that extra dimensions are
detectable
- An Artist's Timely Riddles: Deploying scientific methods
to understand a Dada artist's provocative creations
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MID-ATLANTIC EISENHOWER CONSORTIUM
FOR MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION
http://www.rbs.org/ec.nsf
THE U.S. Department of Education has awarded Research for
Better Schools (RBS) a five-year grant to continue operations
of the Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium for Mathematics and
Science Education. The Consortium will continue to focus on
providing intensive professional development and technical
assistance to educators based on effective curriculum,
instruction, and assessment practices, and guided by its
mission to support improvement in teacher and student
performance.
The four primary categories of in-person services will be:
- professional development workshops
- regional and state leadership conferences
- technical assistance to schools
- the Middle School Math Project
The four types of large-scale communications services,
designed to reach all mathematics and science educators in
the region, will be:
- the Currents semiannual newsletter
- electronic media (listservs, Web sites, etc.)
- dissemination of R&D-based products
- Eisenhower demonstration and access centers
See, in particular, the Consortium's TIMSS Resource Center,
a section of the site devoted to information, analysis,
and opinion about the Third International Mathematics and
Science Study:
http://www.rbs.org/ec.nsf/pages/L2TIMSS/
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