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Current Issue: September 2002 Volume 49 Issue 8
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Dynamical Zeta Functions and Transfer Operators

David Ruelle

Zeta functions associated with dynamical systems are an effective means to count periodic orbits with weights. The analysis of dynamical zeta functions uses such tools as transfer operators and kneading determinants.
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The IAS School of Mathematics

Allyn Jackson

Since its founding in the 1930s, the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Studies has been a vibrant mathematical center, with an outstanding permanent faculty and an active visitors program.
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Communications

How The Other Half Thinks and Mathematics Galore!
A Book Review
Reviewed by Edward J. Barbeau

The Hilbert Challenge and The Honors Class
A Book Review
Reviewed by Brian E. Blank

WHAT IS An Amoeba?
Oleg Viro

Interview with Philippe Tondeur

Best Current Practices: Recommendations on Electronic Information Communication (2002)

Rao and Stein Receive National Medal of Science

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

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Backlog of Mathematics Research Journals

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New Publications Offered by the AMS

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Mathematical Sciences Employment Center

Meetings and Conferences Table of Contents

From the AMS Secretary

Special Section--Election of Officers for 2003

Biographies of Candidates 2002

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