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Current Issue: March 2003 Volume 50 Issue 3

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Disks That Are Double Spiral Staircases

Tobias H. Colding and William P. Minicozzi III

The helicoid is a classical example of a minimal surface in three-dimensional space. This article explains why a minimal surface that is an embedded disk must be either a graph or a piece of a helicoid.
(pp. 327)
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The Riemann Hypothesis

J. Brian Conrey

The Clay mathematics Institute has offered one million dollars for a proof that the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on a line. The author sketches some of the approaches to this famously difficult unsolved problem.
(pp. 341)
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Communications

WHAT IS...A Train Track?
Lee Mosher

The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars
A Book Review
Reviewed by Andrew Bremner

It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science
A Book Review
Reviewed by William G. Faris

Mandelbrot and Yorke Receive 2003 Japan Prize

Presidential Views: Interview with David Eisenbud

MSRI Celebrates its Twentieth Birthday

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