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Of the American Mathematical Society ISSN 0002-9920 Notices of the American Mathematical Society of the American Mathematical Society October 2010 Volume 57, Number 9 Topological Methods What if Newton saw an apple as just an apple? for Nonlinear Oscillations page 1080 Tilings, Scaling Functions, and a Markov Process page 1094 Reminiscences of Grothendieck and His School page 1106 Speaking with the Would we have his laws of gravity? That’s the power Natives: Refl ections of seeing things in different ways. When it comes to on Mathematical TI technology, look beyond graphing calculators. Communication ™ ® Think TI-Nspire Computer Software for PC or Mac . page 1121 » Software that’s easy to use. Explore higher order mathematics and dynamically connected represen- Volume 57, Number 9, Pages 1073–1240, October 2010 New Orleans Meeting tations on a highly intuitive, full-color user interface. page 1192 » Software that’s easy to keep updated. 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