The Dietrich School is excited to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed open-access journal, the Pittsburgh Interdisciplinary Mathematics Review (PIMR), the first collaborative effort between the School’s Department of Mathematics and the University of Pittsburgh Library System. You can access the entire first issue at pimr.pitt.edu. Additionally, you can read an introductory letter from the editors here.
This inaugural issue of PIMR features a variety of engaging articles, including:
· An informative book review of Whitehead’s classic "Introduction to Mathematics" by Andrew Mellon Professor Tom Hales, available here;
· An insightful interview with former chair of the Math Department, Professor Jon Rubin, accessible here;
· An article by Undergraduate Director Professor Jason DeBlois on mathematics research, which can be read here;
· Professor Paul Gartside contributes two proofs without words, available here;
· Graduate student Edison Hauptman discusses why there isn't an inverse quotient rule here;
· Past Painter Research Fellow Riley Debski explains how math is used to encode and decode messages here.
· Student editor Neil MacLachlan writes about graduate school applications and the history of mathematics in Pittsburgh here;
· Student editors Stephen Arndt and Ryder Pham bring you Beach Math puzzles and solutions here!
Additionally, the editors would like to highlight their ongoing recruitment of new editorial board members. The current editors accepted to prestigious institutions such as Caltech, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and Carnegie Mellon, have been recognized with honors including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the NASA PSGC Scholarship, the Naval ROTC Scholarship, the Chancellor’s, Brackenridge, Painter, and SURA Research Fellowships, as well as the Blumberg, Culver, Boren, McCune, and Hales-Putnam Prizes. This driven and supportive working environment within the journal is a great place for interested undergraduate students to gain editorial experience in STEM. They are especially interested in recruiting students from outside the mathematics department to contribute as editors or authors since their journal is interdisciplinary in nature. They invite potential new editors from all backgrounds to join for future issues!
If you are interested in getting involved as an editor, author, or both, please fill out this form and you will be contacted.
They also invite faculty from related disciplines to write expository articles for an undergraduate audience and encourage graduate students to join the journal's referee board. Reach out to them using the contact details provided on the journal’s official webpage pimr.pitt.edu