September 17, 2013
What is a wave attractor? How can we "see" below the Earth's surface while staying above ground? And what does desertification have to do with balloons? These and other topics are discussed in the September 2013 issue of the Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (NAW, translated as "New Archive for Mathematics"), the quarterly journal of the Royal Mathematical Society of the Netherlands. The NAW is aimed at a broad audience: anyone professionally involved in mathematics, whether as an academic or industrial researcher, student, teacher, journalist or decision maker. [...]