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Current Issue: August  2002  Volume 49  Issue 7 
 

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Three Ways of Measuring Distance, Three Orbits, Three Subdegrees, or The Great Theorems of Cameron and Kantor

Shreeram S. Abhyankar

Various finite classical groups can be realized as Galois groups of explicit polynomials.
(pp. 759)
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Twenty Centuries of Mathematics

John Ewing

The author outlines the goals and the challenges for a massive project to make all past scholarly mathematical literature available online.
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Communications

The Early History of the Fields Medal
Carl Riehm

Learning from Liu Hui? A Different Way to Do Mathematics
Christopher Cullen

The Bit and the Pendulum
A Book Review
Reviewed by Solomon W. Golomb

Called Too Soon by Flames Afar: Niels Henrik Abel and His Times
A Book Review
Reviewed by Jesper Lutzen

Iwaniec, Sarnak, and Taylor Receive Ostrowski Prize

Sinai Receives 2002 Nemmers Prize

2001 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Second Report)
Don O. Loftsgaarden, James W. Maxwell, Kinda Priestley Remick

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Report of the Executive Director, State of the AMS, 2002

Report of the Treasurer (2001)