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Current Issue: October  2007  Volume 54  Issue 9 
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Features

The Character Table for E8

David Vogan

The recent machine calculation of the characters of the Lie group of type E8 was a mathematical and computational achievement receiving widespread public attention. The author, one of the particpants in the project, explains why the result was significant and tells the story of how it was done.
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Paul Halmos: In His Own Words

John Ewing

Paul Halmos (1916-2006) wrote widely about doing, teaching, and communicating mathematics. This collection of excerpts presents some of his best writing.
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Communications

WHAT IS...a Woodin Cardinal?
John R. Steel

NSF Proposal Preparation: The View of an Ex-Program Officer
Joseph Brennan

Interview with Congressman Jerry McNerney

Bass Receives National Medal of Science
Allyn Jackson

Commentary

Opinion
Two Landmarks, Two Heroes
Allyn Jackson

Letters to the Editor

Bourbaki, A Secret Society of Mathematicians and The Artist and the Mathematician
A Book Review
Reviewed by Michael Atiyah

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