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Mathematics to the Rescue

Cathleen Synge Morawetz

This article, based on the 1997 AMS Retiring Presidential Address, describes some problems in partial differential equations that have interested the author for a long period of time and on which some progress has been made.
(pp. 9)
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The Mathematical Work of the 1998 Fields Medalists

James Lepowsky, Joram Lindenstrauss, Yuri I. Manin, and John Milnor

Four experts give a sense of the scope and importance of the work of Fields Medalists Borcherd, Gowers, Kontsevich, and McMullen.
(pp. 17)
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AWM in the 1990s: A Recent history of The Association for Women in Mathematics

Jean E. Taylor and Sylvia Wiegand

The authors describe how the activities of the AWM have evolved as the AWM strives for equal opportunity and equal treatment for women and other underrepresented groups in mathematics.
(pp. 27)
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