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The Reference section of the Notices Upcoming Deadlines http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/ is intended to provide the reader with December 15, 2004: Applications for nsf0451/nsf0451.pdf. frequently sought information in NRC-Ford Foundation Postdoctoral January 1, 2005: Entries for Cryp- an easily accessible manner. New Fellowships. See “Mathematics Op- tologia undergraduate paper compe- titions. See http://www.dean.usma. information is printed as it becomes portunities” in this issue. edu/math/pubs/cryptologia/. available and is referenced after the December 20, 2004: NSA grants January 5, 2005: Applications for first printing. As soon as information in quantum computing algorithms. fellowships for the IMA 2005–2006 is updated or otherwise changed, it See http://www.nas.gov/msp/ thematic program. See http://www. will be noted in this section. msp00002.cfm. ima.umn.edu/docs/membership. December 31, 2004: Supporting Contacting the Notices html. references for nominations for Alan T. January 7, 2005: Applications The preferred method for contacting Waterman Award. See the website for National Defense Science and the Notices is electronic mail. The editor is the person to whom to send Where to Find It articles and letters for consideration. A brief index to information that appears in this and previous issues of the Articles include feature articles, Notices. memorial articles, communications, AMS Bylaws—November 2003, p. 1283 opinion pieces, and book reviews. The AMS E-mail Addresses—December 2004, p. 1365 editor is also the person to whom to AMS Ethical Guidelines—June/July 2004, p. 675 send news of unusual interest about AMS Officers 2002 and 2003 (Council, Executive Committee, other people’s mathematics research. Publications Committees, Board of Trustees)—May 2004, p. 566 The managing editor is the person AMS Officers and Committee Members—October 2004, p. 1082 to whom to send items for “Mathe- Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences—September 2004, matics People”, “Mathematics Op- p. 921 portunities”, “For Your Information”, Information for Notices Authors—June/July 2004, p. 670 “Reference and Book List”, and “Math- Mathematics Research Institutes Contact Information—August 2004, ematics Calendar”. Requests for p. 810 permissions, as well as all other National Science Board—January 2005, p. 76 inquiries, go to the managing editor. New Journals for 2003—June/July 2004, p. 672 The electronic-mail addresses are NRC Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications—March 2004, [email protected] in the case of p. 350 the editor and [email protected] in NRC Mathematical Sciences Education Board—April 2004, p. 446 the case of the managing editor. The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee—February fax numbers are 405-325-7484 for 2004, p. 242 the editor and 401-331-3842 for the Program Officers for Federal Funding Agencies—October 2004, managing editor. Postal addresses p. 1078 (DoD, DoE); December 2004, p. 1368 (NSF) may be found in the masthead.

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Engineering Graduate Fellowships. June 30, 2005: Nominations for Sciences See the website http://www.asee. the 2005 Fermat Prize. See http:// Director, Life Sciences Consortium org/ndseg/preface.cfm. www.ups-tlse.fr/ACTUALITES/ Director, Biotechnology Institute January 10, 2005: Applications for Sciences/Prix_Fermat_2004/ Pennsylvania State University AAUW Selected Professions Fellow- Areglement.html. ships. See http://www.aauw.org/ July 31, 2005: Applications or Kenneth M. Ford fga/fellowships_grants/ nominations for Monroe H. Martin Director, Institute for Human selected.cfm or contact the AAUW Prize. See “Mathematics Opportuni- and Machine Cognition Educational Foundation, 1111 Six- ties” in this issue. University of West Florida teenth St. N.W., Washington, DC January 1, 2006: Applications for 20036; telephone: 800-326-2289 ICM 2006 Travel Grants. See http:// Daniel E. Hastings (AAUW); fax: 202-872-1425; email: www.icm2006.org or email: grants@ Associate Director, Engineering [email protected]. icm2006.org. Systems Division January 13, 2005: Proposals for Massachusetts Institute of ONR Young Investigator Program. See National Science Board Technology “Mathematics Opportunities” in this The National Science Board is the issue. policymaking body of the National Elizabeth Hoffman January 31, 2005: Applications for Science Foundation. Listed below are President postdoctoral fellowships at the Mittag- the current members of the NSB. For University of Colorado System Leffler Institute. See the website further information, visit the website http://www.ml.kva.se/grants. http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/. Louis Lanzerotti February 1, 2005: Applications for Dan Arvizu (consultant) Distinguished Professor of Physics AWM Collaborative Research Grants Chief Technology Officer for Center for Solar Terrestrial for Women. See “Mathematics Op- Industrial and Federal Businesses Research portunities” in this issue. CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd. Department of Physics February 1, 2005: Applications for Executive Director for Energy New Jersey Institute of Technology AWM Travel Grants and AWM Men- and Technologies toring Travel Grants. See the AWM University of Chicago Alan I. Leshner website, http://www.awm-math. Chief Executive Officer org/travelgrants.html; telephone: Barry C. Barish American Association for the 301-405-7892; email: awm@math. Linde Professor of Physics Advancement of Science umd.edu. California Institute of Technology February 15, 2005: Nominations Jane Lubchenco for Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff Steven Beering Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor Program. See the website http:// President Emeritus of Marine Biology claymath.org/fas/liftoff_ Purdue University Distinguished Professor fellows/. of Zoology March 1, 2005: Applications for Ray Bowen Oregon State University EDGE Summer Program. See website Former President at http://www.edgeforwomen. Texas A&M University Diana S. Natalicio (vice chair) org/index.html. President March 1, 2005: Applications for G. Wayne Clough University of Texas at El Paso IMA New Directions visiting profes- President sorships at IMA. See “Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology Douglas D. Randall Opportunities” in this issue. Professor of Biochemistry April 1, 2005: Applications for Kelvin K. Droegemeier Director, Interdisciplinary Program IMA New Directions Short Course. Regents’ Professor of Meteorology on Plant Biochemistry-Physiology See “Mathematics Opportunities” in Roger and Sherry Teigen University of Missouri this issue. Presidential Professor May 1, 2005: Applications for AWM Director, Center for Analysis Michael G. Rossmann Travel Grants. See the AWM website, and Prediction of Storms Hanley Distinguished Professor http://www.awm-math.org/ University of Oklahoma of Biological Sciences travelgrants.html; telephone: 301- Purdue University 405-7892; email: [email protected]. Delores M. Etter June 2, 2005: Applications for NSF Professor of Electrical Engineering Daniel Simberloff University-Industry Cooperative Re- United States Naval Academy Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of search Programs in the Mathematical Environmental Science Sciences (UICRP). See “Mathematics Nina V. Fedoroff Department of Ecology and Opportunities” in this issue. Willaman Professor of Life Evolutionary Biology

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University of Tennessee *Added to “Book List” since the The Curious Life of , list’s last appearance. the Man Who Measured , by Jon C. Strauss Lisa Jardine. HarperCollins, February President Abel’s Proof: An Essay on the 2004. ISBN 0-060-53897-X. Harvey Mudd College Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Everything and More: A Compact Kathryn D. Sullivan Unsolvability, by Peter Pesic. MIT History of Infinity, by David Foster President and CEO Press, May 2003. ISBN 0-262-16216-4. Wallace. W. W. Norton, October 2003. Center of Science and Industry (Reviewed March 2004.) ISBN 0-393-00338-8. (Reviewed Across the Board: The Mathematics June/July 2004.) Jo Anne Vasquez of Chessboard Problems, by John J. The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Mesa Public Schools (Retired) Watkins. Princeton University Press, Greene. Knopf, February 2004. ISBN 0- April 2004. ISBN 0-691-11503-6. 375-41288-3. Warren M. Washington (chair) Adam Spencer’s Book of Numbers, Fields Medalists’ Lectures, edited Senior Scientist and Section Head by Adam Spencer. Four Walls Eight by Sir Michael Atiyah and Daniel Iagol- National Center for Atmospheric Windows, January 2004. ISBN 1-568- nitzer. World Scientific, 2nd edition, Research 58289-7. December 2003. ISBN 9-812-38259-3. Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Four Colors Suffice: How the Map John A. White Jr. Great Thinker, edited by Christof Problem Was Solved, by Robin Wilson. Chancellor Teuscher. Springer, 2004. ISBN 3-540- Princeton University Press, March University of Arkansas 20020-7. 2003. ISBN 0-691-11533-8. (Reviewed Alpha and Omega: The Search for February 2004.) Mark S. Wrighton the Beginning and End of the Universe, From Newton to Hawking: A History Chancellor by Charles Seife. Viking, July 2003. of Cambridge University’s Lucasian Washington University in St. Louis ISBN 0-670-03179-8. Professors of Mathematics, edited by Kevin C. Knox and Richard Noakes. Automated Reasoning and the Dis- Arden L. Bement Jr. Cambridge University Press, Novem- covery of Missing and Elegant Proofs, (member ex officio) ber 2003. ISBN 0-521-66310-5. by Larry Wos and Gail Pieper. Rinton Acting Director and Director- Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant, Press, December 2003. ISBN 1-58949- Designate by Julian Havil. Princeton University 023-1. National Science Foundation Press, May 2003. ISBN 0-691-09983-9. Beyond Coincidence, by Martin (Reviewed August 2004.) The contact information for the Board Plimmer and Brian King. Icon Books, Geometry: Our Cultural Heritage, is: National Science Board, National March 2004. ISBN 1-840-46534-4. by Audun Holme. Springer, April Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson The Changing Shape of Geometry: 2002. ISBN 3-540-41949-7. (Reviewed Boulevard, Suite 1225, Arlington, VA Celebrating a Century of Geometry May 2004.) 22230; telephone: 703-292-5111; and Geometry Teaching, edited by Gödel’s Proof, by Ernest Nagel and World Wide Web: http://www.nsf. Chris Pritchard. Cambridge Univer- gov/nsb/. James R. Newman. New York Univer- sity Press, January 2003. ISBN 0-521- sity Press, revised edition, February 53162-4. 2002. ISBN 0-8147-5816-9. (Reviewed Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of March 2004.) Book List Venn Diagrams, by A. W. F. Edwards. The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, Johns Hopkins University Press, April The Book List highlights books that the World’s Most Astonishing Number, 2004. ISBN 0-801-87434-3. have mathematical themes and are by Mario Livio. Broadway Books, Oc- Constantin Carathéodory: Mathe- aimed at a broad audience potentially tober 2002. ISBN 0-767-90815-5. including mathematicians, students, matics and Politics in Turbulent Times, A Handbook of Mathematical Dis- and the general public. When a book by M. Georgiadou. Springer, Septem- course, by Charles Wells. Infinity has been reviewed in the Notices, a ref- ber 2004. ISBN 3-540-44258-8. Publishing Company, 2003. ISBN 0- erence is given to the review. Gener- The Constants of Nature: From 7414-1685-9. (Reviewed September ally the list will contain only books Alpha to Omega—The Numbers That 2004.) published within the last two years, Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Uni- How Economics Became a Mathe- though exceptions may be made in verse, by John D. Barrow. Jonathan matical Science, by E. Roy Weintraub. cases where current events (e.g., the Cape, September 2002. Pantheon Duke University Press, June 2002. death of a prominent mathematician, Books, January 2003. ISBN 0-375- ISBN 0-822-32856-9. coverage of a certain piece of mathe- 42221-8. (Reviewed November 2004.) Infinity: The Quest to Think the Un- matics in the news) warrant drawing Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory thinkable, by Brian Clegg. Carroll & readers’ attention to older books. at the World’s Toughest Math Compe- Graf, December 2003. ISBN 0-786- Suggestions for books to include on tition, by Steve Olson. Houghton Mif- 71285-6. the list may be sent to notices- flin, April 2004. ISBN 0-618-25141-3. Information: The New Language of [email protected]. (Reviewed August 2004.) Science, by Hans Christian von Baeyer.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, October 2003. Mathematics and War, edited by Proofs from The Book, by Martin ISBN 0-297-60725-1 (hardcover), 0- Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek and Jens Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler. Springer- 753-81782-9 (paperback). Høyrup. Birkhäuser, December 2003. Verlag, third edition, December 2003. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces ISBN 3-764-31634-9. ISBN 3-540-40460-0. That Shape the Universe, by Martin Mathematics, Art, Technology, and The Reader of Gentlemen’s Mail: Rees. Basic Books, May 2001. ISBN 0- Cinema, edited by Michele Emmer and Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of 465-03673-2. (Reviewed November Mirella Manaresi. Springer, 2003. ISBN American Codebreaking, by David 2004.) 3-540-00601-X. Kahn. Yale University Press, March Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in Mathematics in Nature: Modeling 2004. ISBN 0-300-09846-4. a Statistical Age, by Theodore M. Patterns in the Natural World, by John The Riemann Hypothesis: The Porter. Princeton University Press, Feb- Adam. Princeton University Press, No- Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathe- ruary 2004. ISBN 0-691-11445-5. vember 2003. ISBN 0-691-11429-3. matics, by Karl Sabbagh. Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 2003. ISBN 0-374- Kepler’s Conjecture: How Some of Meta Math! The Quest for Omega, 25007-3. the Greatest Minds in History Helped by Gregory J. Chaitin. April 2004. The Saga of Mathematics: A Brief Solve One of the Oldest Math Prob- Available at http://www.cs. History, by Marty Lewinter and William lems in the World, by George G. Szpiro. umaine.edu/~chaitin/omega.html. Widulski. Prentice Hall, January 2002. John Wiley & Sons, January 2003. ISBN More Mathematical Astronomy ISBN 0-130-34079-0. Morsels, by Jean Meeus. Willmann-Bell 0-471-08601-0. (Reviewed in this Shooting the Sun, by Max Byrd. issue.) Inc., 2002. ISBN 0-943396-743. Bantam, December 2003. ISBN 0-553- Linked: The New Science of Net- The Music of the Primes: Searching 80208-9. works, by Albert-László Barabási. to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Math- Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Perseus Publishing, May 2002. ISBN 0- ematics, by Marcus Du Sautoy. Harper- Coding in the Andean Knotted-String 738-20667-9. (Reviewed February Collins, April 2003. ISBN 0-066-21070-4. Records, by Gary Urton. University of 2004.) Newton’s Apple: Isaac Newton and Texas Press, August 2003. ISBN 0-292- Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the English Scientific , by 78540-2. the Rise of Mathematical Physics, by Peter Aughton. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Six Degrees: The Science of a Con- Andrew Warwick. University of October 2003. ISBN 0-297-84321-4. nected Age, by Duncan J. Watts. W. W. Chicago Press, July 2003. ISBN 0-226- The Number π, by Pierre Eymard Norton, February 2003. ISBN 0-393- 87375-7. and Jean-Pierre Lafon. AMS, 2004. 04142-5. (Reviewed February 2004.) Math through the Ages: A Gentle ISBN 0-8218-3246-8. Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, History for Teachers and Others, by * Number Theory from an Analytic and Other Mathematical Explorations, William P. Berlinghoff and Fernando Q. Point of View, by Badih Ghusayni. by Keith Ball. Princeton University Gouvêa. Oxton House, 2002. ISBN 1- Komati, December 2003. ISBN 9953- Press, November 2003. ISBN 0-691- 881929-21-3. (Reviewed October 0-0282-7. 11321-1. (Reviewed in December 2004.) On the Nature of Human Romantic 2004.) The Mathematical Century: The 30 Interaction, by Karl Iagnemma. Dial Sync: The Emerging Science of Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Press, April 2003. ISBN 0-385-33593-8. Spontaneous Order, by Steven Stro- Years, by Piergiorgio Odifreddi, trans- Phase Change: The Computer Rev- gatz. Hyperion, February 2003. ISBN lated by Arturo Sangalli. Princeton olution in Science and Mathematics, 0-786-86844-9. (Reviewed March University Press, May 2004. ISBN 0- by Douglas S. Robertson. 2004.) 691-09294-X. University Press, March 2003. ISBN * Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematical Journeys, by Peter D. 0-195-15748-6. Mathematics, by David Corfield. , April 2003. Schumer. Wiley-Interscience, Febru- Portraits of the Earth: A Mathe- ISBN 0-521-81722-6. ary 2004. ISBN 0-471-22066-3. matician Looks at Maps, by Timothy G. Mathematicians as Enquirers: Feeman. AMS, September 2002. ISBN Learning about Learning Mathemat- 0-8218-3255-7. ics, edited by Leone Burton. Kluwer, Predicting Presidential Elections and April 2004. Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020- Other Things, by Ray C. Fair. Stanford 7853-6; paperback, ISBN 1-4020-7859- University Press, August 2002. ISBN 5; eBook, ISBN 1-4020-7908-7. 0-804-74509-9. A Mathematician’s Survival Guide: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann Graduate School and Early Career De- and the Greatest Unsolved Problem, by velopment, by Steven G. Krantz. AMS, John Derbyshire. Joseph Henry Press, August 2003. ISBN 0-8218-3455-X. March 2003. ISBN 0-309-08549-7. (Reviewed April 2004.) Probability Theory: The Logic of Sci- Mathematics and Culture I, edited ence, by E. T. Jaynes, edited by G. Larry by Michele Emmer. Springer, January Bretthorst. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 3-540-01770-4. April 2003. ISBN 0-521-59271-2.

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