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Appendix B
Appendix B
Pages 233-242
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It turned out further that the NSF was not in a position to offer any help except to comment on professional survey organizations which might be able to conduct such a survey. After considering this matter for many months, and after informal contact with two of the most reputable academic-type survey organizations (The Survey Research Center at the University of Chicago, for one)
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and all these studies seem to come to much the same conclusions as we would have predicted on the basis of "pure thought." The proposal to abandon the idea of a survey seems to have met with the approval of all parties involved in setting up the original charge to this committee. We therefore recommend that the American Mathematical Society set up a permanent committee to monitor problems of communication: that this committee should experiment with nilot projects In (hopefully)
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It is not clear what encouragement the Category Information Centre (centered in Prague) would desire, but similar centers might be organized in one or more other fields of mathematics, for example, in numerical solutions of partial differential equations, or in differential topology, or in operator theory (Hilbert space)
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More journals could then devote much space to survey articles at a very high level, supplementing the present activities of the Bulletin. Aside from provision for such survey articles, the American Mathematical Society could drastically cut the page allotments in its present journals and might well enlist the cooperation of most other American journals.
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. The second and third columns are the standard volume and page references, and the rest consists of titles arranged alphabetically according to one word of the title.
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This would index published papers not only according to title, but according to specified aspects of their contents. For example, Dorothy Bernstein, presently at Brown, maintains an index on partial differential equations which lists for each review of a paper on partial differential equations the order, number of unknowns, number of independent variables, type (elliptical, hyperbolic, linear, etc.)
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For example: Devote half of some national meeting to a more closely planned, more detailed set of lectures; for example, a series of lectures whose texts are available beforehand, with discussion conducted by formally appointed persons who are acquainted with the text.
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5. A meeting could include a set of lectures at a more expository level than present AMS lectures; for example, make them accessible to reasonably qualified graduate students.
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7. Editors or past editors of research journals and of technical series of advanced treatises For some purposes it may also be desirable to classify mathematicians according to their field of interest.
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