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Encounter with a Geometer, Part II

Marcel Berger

Partially based on three interviews, this two-part article discusses the extraordinary mathematics of Mikhael Gromov. Part II concentrates on Riemannian geometry and on mm-spaces, a class of measure spaces that generalize Riemannian manifolds.
(pp. 326)
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Standing the Test of Time: The Data Encryption Standard

Susan Landau

The Data Encryption Standard is the most widely used public cryptosystem in the world. Successfully used for more than twenty years, it has only recently begun to be vulnerable to the power of present-day computers. Landau describes the principles behind this encryption system and the kinds of attacks that are used on it.
(pp. 341)
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Memorial Articles

Jean Leray (1906--1998)

Armand Borel, Gennadi M. Henkin, and Peter D. Lax

Communications

Reifying the Research: Mathematics Education in Taiwan
Mark Saul

Declining Student Numbers Worry German Mathematics Departments

The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography
A Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Reeds

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