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Interview with Heisuke Hironaka

Allyn Jackson

The Notices talks to the distinguished Japanese mathematician about his life and work.
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Ground Control to Niels Bohr: Exploring Outer Space with Atomic Physics

Mason A. Porter and Predrag Cvitanovic

The motion of bodies in space--such as comets, asteroids, and spacecraft--follow chaotic trajectories, as do excited electrons. The authors discuss how the mathematical connections between these different scale, but otherwise related, nonlinear dynamical systems are helping astrophysics and chemistry.
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Communications

Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics

WHAT IS...a Pseudoholomorphic Curve?
Simon K. Donaldson

János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space
A Book Review
Reviewed by Robert Osserman

Henri Poincaré. A Life in the Service of Science
Jean Mawhin

Interview with Arild Stubhaug
Ulf Persson

The Mathematical Science Institutes
William Rundell

Reaching for Common Ground in K-12 Mathematics Education
Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Jeremy Kilpatrick, R. James Milgram, Wilfried Schmid, and Richard Schaar

Levin Receives 2005 Kyoto Prize

MathSciNet Matters
Norman Richert

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