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Current Issue: March  2009  Volume 56  Issue 03 
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Features

The TeX Family in 2009

Jim Hefferon and Karl Berry

Many mathematicians routinely use TeX and its variants to write mathematics, but many of these users do not routinely update their TeX skills as progress is made in the TeX progams. The authors describe some of this progress and explain how the typical user can take advantage of these improvements.
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Time-frequency Analysis of Musical Rhythm

Xiaowen Cheng, Jarod V. Hart, and James S. Walker

Gabor transforms, or spectograms, can be used to graphically represent time-frequency structure patterns. Continuous wavelet transforms are a related notion, leading to the notion of a scalogram. The authors review these notions and apply them to analyze musical rhythm and its interaction with melody.
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Communications

WHAT IS...Lehmer's Number?
Eriko Hironaka

Presidential Views: Interview with George Andrews
Allyn Jackson

Donald McClure Named AMS Executive Director
Allyn Jackson

2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report, Part II)
Polly Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Colleen A. Rose

Commentary

Opinion
Global Crisis from the Perspective of Complex Adaptive Systems
E. Ahmed and A. S. Hegazi

Letters to the Editor

The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny
A Book Review
Reviewed by Hector Sussman

The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics
A Book Review
Reviewed by Brent Deschamp

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