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Mathematics for Teaching

Al Cuoco

What can be done to improve the undergraduate education of prospective high school mathematics teachers? The author discusses current problems, potential solutions, and some examples of successful efforts.
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Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices

Allen Knutson and Terence Tao

If you know the eigenvalues of two Hermitian matrices, can you describe the possible eigenvalues of the sum matrix? The authors explain the role of combinatorial gadgets called honeycombs in a recent proof of the description conjectured by Alfred Horn in 1962.
(pp. 175)
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Communications

Presidential Views: Interview with Felix Browder

NSF Launches Major Initiative in Mathematics

The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers are Like Gossip
A Book Review
Reviewed by Allyn Jackson

2000 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report)
Don O. Loftsgaarden, James Maxwell, Kinda Remick Priestley

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