Mary Cartwright (1900--1998)
Shawnee McMurran and James Tattersall
Interview with AMS President Arthur Jaffe
Allyn Jackson
1998 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report)
Paul W. Davis, James W. Maxwell, Kinda M. Remick
1999 Election (Call for Suggestions)
1999 Election (Nomination by Petition)
Linear Systems of Plane Curves
Rick Miranda
The dimension of the space of plane curves vanishing to certain orders at
finitely many points is counterintuitive. This article examines what is known
toward proving a conjecture from the 1980s about this dimension.
Twenty Years of Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem
Dan Boneh
The RSA encryption system is used to secure many commercial transactions,
including communications on the Internet and ordinary credit card payments.
The author gives a number of ways in which slight carelessness in using
the system can render it vulnerable.
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"Small Steps" - Anthony W. Knapp
Commentary
"Compute and Conjecture" - Susan Landau
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1999 NSF-CBMS Regional Conferences
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