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The Felix Klein Protocols

Eugene Chislenko and Yuri Tschinkel

The Klein Protocols are the handwritten records of the Göttingen seminar lectures of Felix Klein and his school. These rare documents, a centerpiece of the Göttingen Mathematical Institute's archive, have recently become available digitally. In this article, the authors take readers on an annotated tour of the Protocols.
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The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography

Neal Koblitz

The worlds of academic mathematical research and commercial and governmental application, with their occasionally distinct values and practices, meet and sometimes clash in the study and implementation of cryptosystems. The author describes his own experiences, and those of mathematical colleagues, in this intersection.
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Communications

WHAT IS...a Higgs Bundle?
Steven B. Bradlow, Oscar García-Prada, and Peter B. Gothen

Alfred Tarski, Friend and Daemon
Benjamin Wells

Interview with Stephen Smale
George Szpiro

Efron Receives National Medal of Science
Allyn Jackson

Langlands and Taylor Awarded Shaw Prize

A Labor of Love: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Allyn Jackson

Commentary

Opinion
What Does a Mathematician Look Like?
Ruth Haas and Jim Henle

Letters to the Editor

Alfred Tarski. Life and Logic
A Book Review
Reviewed by Hourya Benis Sinaceur

The Trouble with Physics
A Book Review
Reviewed by Brent Deschamp

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2007 AMS Election--List of Candidates, Election Information

Nominations for President

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Call for Suggestions for 2008 Election

Nomination Petition for 2008 Election

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