Lai-Sang Young
This article reports on some developments since the 1960s in the subject of hyperbolic dynamics, using billiards and Hénon attractors as illustrative examples.
(pp. 1318)
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John Milnor
Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nobel laureate John Nash. Milnor gives a brief review of this book and then adds some commentary about Nash's scientific work.
(pp. 1329)
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Edwin F. Beschler
The author discusses factors that play a role in pricing in the commercial publishing business, seeing profit as the reward for the investment that makes innovation and risk-taking possible and seeing profit as a relatively small contributor to the price spiral.
(pp. 1333)
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