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CALL: 1-800-777-4643 • FAX: (201) 348-4505 • E-MAIL: [email protected] • www.birkhauser.com 014495x Notices of the American Mathematical Society December 2009 Communications 1418 1410 1436 WHAT IS…a Rota-Baxter Algebra? Li Guo 1440 Changing Faces: The Mistaken Portrait of Legendre Peter Duren 1445 Steven G. Krantz Appointed Notices Editor 1426 1438 Elaine Kehoe 1447 AIM Workshops: The Moderated Discussion Session Features David W. Farmer and Sally Koutsoliotas 1410 Remembering John Stallings 1451 Just Visiting Danny Calegari and Benson Farb, Joshua D. Laison coordinating editors Friends and colleagues recall the life and work Commentary of the distinguished American mathematician. 1407 Letter from the Editor: 1418 The Quest for Universal Spaces in Anniversaries Andy Magid Dimension Theory Stephen Leon Lipscomb 1438 The Millenium Prize Problems—A Book Review A universal space in a class of topological spaces has Reviewed by Robert C. the defining property that every space in the class Gunning is homeomorphic to a subspace of it. For example, a countable product of unit intervals is universal for the class of separable metric spaces. The author describes a construction of universal spaces for metric spaces of arbitrary weights. 1426 A Trio of Institutes Allyn Jackson There are mathematics institutes around the globe. While all share the common goal of encouraging mathematical research, many different styles and local traditions have emerged. 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