The November issue of the Notices of the AMS is available.

Some highlights:

• What is the Role of Algebra in Applied Mathematics, by David A. Cox. Cos is the author of one of the best undergraduate introductions to algebraic geometry, Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms. The book takes a computational approach based on the technique of Groebner bases.
• What are Groebner bases, you might ask? Bernd Sturmfels answers that question in the latest What is….
• The most intriguing article is Generalized Fourier Transforms, Their Nonlinearizations, and the Imaging of the Brain by Fokas and Sung

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