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Current Issue: November 2003 Volume 50 Issue 10

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Towards the Poincaré Conjecture and the Classification of 3-Manifolds

John Milnor

This article surveys a century of progress on the problem of classifiying compact, three-dimensional manifolds.
(pp. 1226)
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H. S. M. Coxeter (1907--2003)

Erich W. Ellers, Branko Grünbaum, Peter McMullen, Asia Ivic Weiss

Colleagues remember the mathematical influence of a well-known geometer.
(pp. 1234)
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Bringing Eastern European Mathematical Traditions to North American Students
Paul D. Humke, Yulij Ilyashenko, and Serge Tabachnikov

2003 Fulkerson Prize

Imagining Numbers
A Book Review
Reviewed by Steven G. Krantz and Dietmar Dath

California Dreaming
A Book Review
Reviewed by Anthony Ralston

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