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Current Issue: March 2007 Volume 54 Issue 3

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George B. Dantzig (1914--2005)

Richard Cottle, Ellis Johnson, and Roger Wets

Colleagues and former students recall the life and work of the late American mathematician who discovered the simplex method.
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Linear Programming and the Simplex Method

David Gale

The author presents an expository mathematical account of what a linear programming problem is and how Dantzig's simplex method is used to solve it.
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Communications

WHAT IS...a Minimal Model?
János Kollár

Piero della Francesca. A Mathematician's Art
A Book Review
Reviewed by Michele Emmer

The Mathematics of Perspective
Bill Casselman

Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse
A Book Review
Reviewed by Panu Raatikainen

Two Poems by Bill Parry (1934-2006)

The Mathematical Work of the 2006 Fields Medalists
Nicolai Reshetikhin, A. M. Vershik, John W. Morgan, Jean Bourgain, and Harry Kesten

Interviews with Three Fields Medalists
Vicente Muñoz and Ulf Persson

Presidential Views: Interview with James Glimm
Allyn Jackson

New York City Programs Provide a Model for National Teaching Corps
Allyn Jackson

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