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telephone: 202-686-7877; World Wide the program directors for the coming Alvin Thaler Web: http://www.cies.org/. academic year in the of Math- 703-306-1880 January 14, 2000: Deadline for ap- ematical Sciences of the National Sci- [email protected] plications for the 2000-01 “Mathe- ence Foundation. matics in Multimedia” program of the Statistics and Probability IMA. For details, see the IMA’s Web site Keith Crank at http://www.ima.umn.edu/ 703-306-1885 Algebra and Number Theory programs.html or contact the Insti- [email protected] tute for Mathematics and its Applica- Joseph Brennan 703-306-1884 tions, University of Minnesota, 400 William Smith [email protected] Lind Hall, 207 Church Street, Min- 703-306-0565, ext. 1959 neapolis, MN 55455; telephone: 612- [email protected] 624-6066; e-mail to Fred Dulles, As- Robert Perlis 703-306-1876 sociate Program Director, at dulles@ James L. Rosenberger [email protected] ima.umn.edu. 703-306-1883 January 15, 2000: Deadline for ap- [email protected] plications for NIST/NRC Postdoctoral Andrew Pollington 703-306-1875 Research Associateships Program. Fur- Topology and Foundations [email protected] ther information may be obtained Ralph Krause from the NIST Web site, http://www. 703-306-1886 Analysis Program nist.gov/oiaa/postdoc.htm; or by [email protected] contacting Joy Brooks, Information Joe Jenkins 703-306-1879 Specialist, NIST, telephone: 301-975- Benjamin Mann [email protected] 3071; or Jack J. Hsia, Chief of Acade- 703-306-1886 mic Affairs, NIST, telephone: 301-975- [email protected] 3067; or write to the National Research Dmitry Khavinson Council, Associateship Programs- 703-306-1994 [email protected] Gerard Venema TJ2114, 2101 Constitution Avenue, 703-306-1887 NW, Washington, DC 20418; tele- [email protected] phone: 202-334-2760. Peter Polyakov January 31, 2000: Deadline for ap- 703-306-1992 Geometric Analysis plications for travel grant support for [email protected] Benjamin Mann the special meeting Mathematical 703-306-1886 Challenges of the 21st Century, Au- Applied Mathematics [email protected] gust 7–12, 2000, in Los Angeles. For Hans Engler details see “Mathematics Opportuni- 703-306-1870 Christopher Stark ties” in this issue. [email protected] 703-306-1881 February 1, 2000: Deadline for ap- [email protected] plications for NSF/AWM Mentoring Deborah F. Lockhart Travel Grants for Women. Further in- 703-306-1882 formation may be obtained by tele- [email protected] The administrative staff includes: phone at 301-405-7892; or by e-mail at [email protected]. Jong-Shi Pang Division Director February 1, 2000: Deadline for ap- 703-306-1877 Phillipe Tondeur plications for NSF/AWM Travel Grants [email protected] 703-306-1871 for Women. For further information [email protected] and details on applying, see the AWM Henry Warchall Web site, http://www.awm-math. 703-306-0565, ext. 1977 Executive Officer org/travelgrants.html; or tele- [email protected] Bernard R. McDonald phone 301-405-7892; or send e-mail 703-306-1870 to [email protected]. Computational Mathematics [email protected] February 15, 2000: Deadline for Michael Steuerwalt nominations for the Richard C. 703-306-1878 Administrative Officer DiPrima Prize. For details see “Math- [email protected] Tyzcer L. Henson ematics Opportunities” in this issue. 703-306-1873 Infrastructure Program [email protected] NSF Division of Mathematical Lloyd Douglas Sciences 703-306-1874 The mailing address is: Division of Listed below are names, e-mail ad- [email protected] Mathematical Sciences, National Sci- dresses, and telephone numbers for ence Foundation, Room 1025, 4201

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Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA Larry Suter Challenges, by Serge Lang. Springer- 22230; telephone: 703-306-1870. The 703-306-1650 Verlag, 1998. ISBN 0-387-94861-9. address for the Division’s World Wide [email protected] Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephen- Web server is http://www.nsf. son. Avon Books, 1999. ISBN 0-38097- gov/mps/dms/. Division of Undergraduate Educa- 346-4. tion Drawbridge Up: Mathematics—A NSF Staff Cultural Anathema (Zugbrücke ausser The Directorate for Education and James Lightbourne 703-306-1670 Betrieb: Die Mathematik im Jenseits Human Resources (EHR) of the Na- der Kultur), by Hans Magnus Enzens- [email protected] tional Science Foundation (NSF) spon- berger. A K Peters, 1999. ISBN 1- sors a range of programs that sup- 56881-099-7. Elizabeth Teles port educational projects in e: The Story of a Number, by Eli 703-306-1670 mathematics, science, and engineer- Maor. Paperback edition, Princeton [email protected] ing. Listed below are the names, tele- University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691- phone numbers, and e-mail addresses 05854-7. Lee Zia of those EHR program officers whose The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, field is in the mathematical sciences 703-306-1670 Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for or mathematics education. These in- [email protected] the Ultimate Theory, by Brian Greene. dividuals can provide information W. W. Norton & Company, February about the programs they oversee, as Division of Human Resource De- 1999. ISBN 0-393-04688-5. well as information about other EHR velopment Emergence: From Chaos to Order, programs of interest to mathemati- Jesse C. Lewis by John Holland. Perseus Press, 1998. cians. The mailing address is: Direc- 703-306-1633 ISBN 0-201-14943-5. torate for Education and Human Re- [email protected] Euclid: The Creation of Mathemat- sources, National Science Foundation, ics, by Benno Artmann. Springer-Ver- 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA Book List lag, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98423-2. 22230. The World Wide Web address Fermat’s Last Theorem for Ama- The Book List highlights books that is http://www.nsf.gov/ehr/. teurs, by Paulo Ribenboim. Springer- have mathematical themes and hold Verlag, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98508-5. Division of Elementary, Secondary, appeal for a wide audience, including The Feynman Processor, by Gerard and Informal Education mathematicians, students, and a J. Milburn and Paul Davies. Helix Teacher Enhancement Program significant portion of the general pub- Books, Perseus, 1998. ISBN 0-738- Virginia Horak lic. When a book has been reviewed in 20016-6. 703-306-1620 the Notices, a reference is given to the Fragile Dominion: Complexity and [email protected] review. Generally the list will contain the Commons, by Simon Levin. Perseus only books published within the last Books, June 1999. ISBN 0-738-20111-1. Diane Spresser two years, though exceptions may be Geometry Civilized: History, Cul- 703-306-1620 made in cases where current events ture, and Technique, by J. L. Heilbron, [email protected] (e.g., the death of a prominent math- Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0- ematician, coverage of a certain piece 198-50078-5. Anna Suarez of mathematics in the news) warrant Goodbye, Descartes: The End of 703-306-1620 drawing readers’ attention to older Logic and the Search for a New Cos- [email protected] books. Suggestions for books to include mology of the Mind, by Keith Devlin. on the list may be sent to the Manag- John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN 0-471- Instructional Materials Development ing Editor, e-mail: [email protected]. 14216-6. Program The Importance of Being Fuzzy and John (Spud) Bradley, Section Head Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Other Insights from the Border Be- 703-306-1620 Nonstandard Analysis, a Personal and tween Math and Computers, by Ar- [email protected] Mathematical Odyssey, by Joseph War- turo Sangalli. Princeton University ren Dauben. Princeton University Press, December 1998. ISBN 0-691- George Bright Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-05911-X. 00144-8. 703-306-1620 The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells √ An Imaginary Tale: The Story of [email protected] (Virtual Laboratory), by Hans Mein- 1, by Paul J. Nahin. Princeton Uni- hardt, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, and versity Press, 1998. ISBN 0-691-02795- Division of Research, Evaluation, Deborah R. Fowler. Springer-Verlag, 1. (Reviewed in this issue.) and Dissemination 1998. ISBN 3-540-63919-5. In the Light of Logic, by Solomon Fe- Eric Hamilton, Acting Division The Applicability of Mathematics as ferman. Oxford University Press, 1998. Director a Philosophical Problem, by Mark ISBN 0-195-08030-0. 703-306-1650 Steiner. Harvard University Press, The Invention of Infinity: Mathe- [email protected] 1998. ISBN 0-674-04097-X. matics and Art in the Renaissance, by

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J. V. Field. Oxford University Press, Norton and Company, 1997. ISBN 0- Brauer, by Charles W. Curtis. 1997. ISBN 0-198-52394-7. 393-04002-X. AMS/London Mathematical Society, Jacques Hadamard, A Universal The Mathematics of Ciphers; Num- 1999. ISBN 0-8218-9002-6. Mathematician, by Vladimir Mazy´a ber Theory and RSA Cryptography, Proofs from THE BOOK, by Martin and Tatyana Shaposhnikova. AMS/ by S. C. Coutinho. A K Peters, 1998. Aigner and Günter Ziegler. Springer- London Mathematical Society, 1998. ISBN 1-568-81082-2. Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-540-63698-6. (Re- ISBN 0-821-80841-9. Mathematics Without Borders: A His- viewed August 1999.) James Joseph Sylvester: Life and tory of the International Mathematical The Queen of Mathematics: A His- Work in Letters, by Karen Hunger Par- Union, by Olli Lehto. Springer-Verlag, torically Motivated Guide to Number shall. Oxford University Press, 1998. February 1998. ISBN 0-387-98358-9. Theory, by Jay R. Goldman. A K Peters, ISBN 0-198-50391-1. (Reviewed in this issue.) 1998. ISBN 1-568-81006-7. The Jungles of Randomness: A Modern Mathematics in the Light Randomness, Deborah Bennett. Har- Mathematical Safari, by Ivars Peter- of the Fields Medals, by Michael vard University Press, 1998. ISBN 0- son. Paperback edition, John Wiley & Monastyrsky. A K Peters, 1997. ISBN 674-10745-4. Sons, 1998. ISBN 0-471-29587-6. (Re- 1-568-81065-2. Reasoning with the Infinite: From viewed June/July 1999.) The Moment of Proof: Mathematical the Closed World to the Mathematical Knowing And Teaching Elementary Epiphanies, by Donald C. Benson. Ox- Universe, by Michel Blay. University Mathematics: Teachers’ Understand- ford University Press, March 1999. of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN 0-226- ing of Fundamental Mathematics in ISBN 0-195-11721-2. 05834-4. China and the United States, by Liping Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Shadows of the Circle: Conic Sec- Ma. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Logic, and Human Frailty, by László tions, Optimal Figures and Non-Eu- 1999. ISBN 0-8058-2908-3 (cloth), 0- Méro˝. Copernicus-Springer Verlag, clidean Geometry, by Vagn Lundsgaard 8058-2909-1 (paper). (Reviewed Sep- 1998. ISBN 0-387-98419-4. Hansen. World Scientific Publishing tember 1999.) My Brain is Open: The Mathemati- Company, November 1998. ISBN 9- The Language of Mathematics: Mak- cal Journeys of Paul Erdo˝s, by Bruce 810-23418-X. ing the Invisible Visible, by Keith Schecter. Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN Strength in Numbers, by Sherman Devlin. W. H. Freeman and Company, 0-684-84635-7. Stein. John Wiley & Sons, 1996. ISBN 1998. ISBN 0-716-73379-X. Mystic, Geometer, and Intuitionist: 0-471-152528-8. (Reviewed May 1999.) Life by the Numbers, by Keith The Life of L. E. J. Brouwer, by Dirk Van Tracking the Automatic Ant, and Devlin. John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN Dalen. Oxford University Press, 1999. Other Mathematical Explorations, by 0-471-24044-3. ISBN 0-198-50297-4. David Gale, Springer-Verlag, 1998. The Magical Maze: Seeing the World New Directions in the Philosophy of ISBN 0-387-98272-8. through Mathematical Eyes, by Ian Mathematics: An Anthology, Thomas Turing and the Computer (The Big Stewart. John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN Tymoczko, Editor. Princeton Univer- Idea), by Paul Strathern. Anchor Books, 0-471-19297-X. sity Press, revised edition, 1998. ISBN April 1999. ISBN 0-385-49243-X. The Mathemagician and the Pied 0-691-03498-2. What Counts: How Every Brain Is Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to Noeuds: Genèse d’une théorie math- Hardwired for Math, by Brian Butter- Martin Gardner, edited by Elwyn ématique (Knots: Genesis of a Mathe- worth. Free Press, August 1999. ISBN Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers. A. K. matical Theory), by Alexsi Sossinsky 0-684-85417-1. Peters, 1999. ISBN 1-568-81075-X. (in French). Seuil, 1999. ISBN 2-020- What is Mathematics, Really?, by A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Dis- 32089-4. Reuben Hersh, Oxford University covering the Truth and Beauty of the The Number Devil, by Hans Magnus Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-511368-3. (Re- Cosmos, by A. K. Dewdney. John Wiley Enzensberger. Metropolitan Books, viewed October 1999.) & Sons, March 1999. ISBN 0-471- 1998. ISBN 0-805-05770-6. What’s Happening in the Mathe- 23847-3. The Number Sense: How the Mind matical Sciences, 1998-1999, by Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Creates Mathematics, by Stanislas Barry Cipra. AMS, 1999. ISBN 0-821- Metaphors, and Images, edited by Lyn Dehaene. Oxford University Press, 80766-8. English. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. ISBN 0-195-11004-8. Why Do Buses Come In Threes?, by 1997. ISBN 0-805-81979-7. (Reviewed Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham. May 1999.) Mathematical Logic of Stories, by John John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN 0-471- Mathematics and Mathematicians: Allen Paulos. Basic Books, 1998. ISBN 34756-6. Mathematics in Sweden before 1950, 0-465-05158-8. (Reviewed September The World According to Wavelets, by by Lars Gårding. AMS/London Math- 1999.) Barbara Burke Hubbard. A K Peters, ematical Society, 1998. ISBN 0-8218- Philosophy of Mathematics: An In- second edition, 1999. ISBN 1-568- 0612-2. troduction to a World of Proofs and 81072-5. (Reviewed October 1999.) Mathematics for the Curious, by Pictures, by James Robert Brown. Rout- Peter M. Higgins. Oxford University ledge, to appear 1999. ISBN 0-415- Press, 1998. ISBN 0-192-88072-1. 12274-0. Mathematics: From the Birth of Pioneers of Representation Theory: Numbers, by Jan Gullberg. W. W. Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and

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